Adult Learning and Gender: EAEA Background Paper

Gender sensitivity in adult learning and education (ALE) is about more than trying to improve targeted outreach programmes for men and women who seem to be slipping through the gaps. By providing gender sensitive education opportunities, people are not only more likely to engage but also more likely to get the most out of their experiences. This background paper explores the problems that gender sensitive adult education could attempt to solve, good practices and examples to help make current structures more gender sensitive, and the wider benefits of gender sensitivity in ALE.
This background paper takes various subtopics or examples of gender sensitivity in adult education and analyses them as individual areas, making its content easier to navigate according to the reader’s interests or concerns.