Purpose

While women in most European societies still carry the largest burden in caring for the family, there is also an important unrealised learning interest among women. This has an impact on women's labour market and career opportunities. This paper aims at analysing empirically the role of family obligations in women's ability to realise their learning interests and how this differs across societal and institutional contexts across Europe.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper makes use of the second wave of Adult Education Survey from 2011, including data from 22 European countries. The article focuses on women aged 25–55 – an age group most affected by parental obligations. Logistic regression models are used to compare the effect that children in the household have on women's learning barriers across country groups of different family policy arrangements.

Findings

The results confirm empirically the situational nature of family barriers to learning as they grow and decline depending on the age of children. However, the level of intensity and the period when family-related barriers remain relevant for women vary across European countries.

Originality/value

This paper provides new insights into how women's caring obligations shape their labour market and career opportunities, focussing on the ability to take up adult learning. Involving data from 22 countries, including Eastern European countries, provides a broad look into the differing contexts shaping women's opportunities across Europe.

中文翻译：

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将学习与家庭责任相结合：比较视角下的欧洲女性

目的

虽然大多数欧洲社会的女性在照顾家庭方面仍然承担着最大的负担，但女性也有一种重要的未实现的学习兴趣。这对妇女的劳动力市场和职业机会产生了影响。本文旨在实证分析家庭义务在女性实现其学习兴趣的能力中的作用，以及这在整个欧洲的社会和制度环境中有何不同。

设计/方法/方法

该论文利用了 2011 年第二波成人教育调查，其中包括来自 22 个欧洲国家的数据。这篇文章的重点是 25-55 岁的女性——一个受父母义务影响最大的年龄组。逻辑回归模型用于比较不同家庭政策安排的国家组中家庭中的孩子对妇女学习障碍的影响。

发现

结果从经验上证实了家庭学习障碍的情境性质，随着儿童年龄的增长和下降。然而，与家庭相关的障碍仍然与女性相关的强度水平和时期因欧洲国家而异。

原创性/价值

本文提供了关于女性的照料义务如何塑造她们的劳动力市场和职业机会的新见解，重点关注成人学习的能力。包括来自东欧国家在内的 22 个国家的数据，提供了对塑造整个欧洲女性机会的不同背景的广泛研究。