Participation in formal adult education and family life : a gendered story

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dc.contributor.authorPÖYLIÖ, Heta Pauliina
dc.contributor.authorO'REILLY MCMULLIN, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-14T10:25:54Z
dc.date.available2025-02-14T10:25:54Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 01 October 2024en
dc.description.abstractPrevious literature on adult education (AE) has focused on various aspects of social inequalities, and although many acknowledge the critical role of gender, the mechanisms influencing gender differences in participation are rarely to the fore. Specifically, women report family responsibilities as the main reason for not enrolling in AE. This article examines whether family responsibilities, measured as the age and number of children, act as motivators or barriers to formal AE participation differently among men and women with varying time and monetary resources, that is, partnership status and relative income, in two societies with high formal AE enrolment rates; Finland and Great Britain. The results from Finnish registers and Understanding Society for 1998–2019 demonstrate clearly that family responsibilities related to having young children in the household restrict women from participating in formal AE to a greater extent than men in both countries. Further, while Finnish society enables individuals who traditionally have fewer resources to attend formal AE, that is, single parents and larger families, in Britain, formal AE is mainly taken up by individuals without children or those in stable family situations. The results highlight the importance of institutions in providing equal access to further educational qualifications.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the project WellSIRe: 'Wellbeing Returns on Social Investment Recalibration' financed by the European Research Council under the grant agreement 882276.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean sociological review, 2024, OnlineFirsten
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/esr/jcae032
dc.identifier.issn0266-7215
dc.identifier.issn1468-2672
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/78046
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relationWellbeing Returns on Social Investment Recalibration
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dc.titleParticipation in formal adult education and family life : a gendered storyen
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