This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training.

There is a continuing imbalance in educational participation - women make up an estimated two-thirds of the world's iliterate people - and writers reflect on the causes and consequences of this. while this lack of oppertunity to learn is shocking in itself, equal access to existing services is not sufficient to make education empowering for women. Too often the formal education system serves merely to confirm gender stereotypes,and school women for subordination. Some writers examine the scope offered by non-formal education to challenge male-biased systems, including training for challenging gender-based inequality.

CONTENTS

• Editorial
  Caroline Sweetman
  
  
• Gender, education and training: an international perspective
  Fiona Leach
  
  
• Education for women's empowerment or schooling for women's subordination?
  Sara Hlupekile Longwe
  
  
• The REFLECT approach to literacy and social change: a gender perspective
  Sara Cottingham, Kate Metcalf and Bimal Phnuyal
  
  
• Approaches to gender-awareness raising: experiences in a government education project in Nepal
  Mo Sibbons
  
  
• Campaigning against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia using popular education
  Beatrice Saodacini and Pamela nichols
  
  
• 'Girls cannot think as boys do': socialising children through the Zimbabwean school system
  Rosemary Gordon
  
  
• Gender training for development practitioners: only a partial solution
  Fenella Porter and Ines Smyth
  
  
• Conference report: Fifth International Conference on adult education (CONFINTEA), Hamburg, Germany, 1997
  Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo
  
  
• Resources
  Compiled by Sam Chamberlain
  
  
• Book Review
  
  
• Further reading
  Resources on training for women/gender training
  
  
• Journals
  
  
• Organisations
  
  
• Web resources
  
  
• E-mail lists