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Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Learning: Estonia Compared with Other European Countries

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In recent decades, the gender education gap in many Western and Nordic countries has gradually reversed in favour of girls and women, in terms of participation in the formal education system, as well as achievement (Ganguli et al., 2011; Ganguli, 2013). This trend also characterizes most post-socialist countries, especially the Baltic countries (Ganguli, 2013), where the gender education gap has become especially pronounced in secondary and tertiary education. For example, while in the European Union countries (EU-27) on average 32 per cent of men and 40 per cent of women have completed tertiary education, in Estonia, tertiary education completion rates are 55 per cent for women and 33 per cent for men, which is the highest gap in the EU (Eurostat, 2013).

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    Dirk Hofäcker (Professor of Quantitative Methods of Social Research) (Professor of Quantitative Methods of Social Research)

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Roosmaa, EL., Aavik, K. (2016). Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Learning: Estonia Compared with Other European Countries. In: Roosalu, T., Hofäcker, D. (eds) Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371096_14

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