女性の高学歴化と社会教育における学習

抄録

Today an increasing number of women go on to higher education, and consequently, quite a number of women who learn in institutions of public adult education have higher educational experience. Their way of thinking and their inclinations toward the subjects became an important matter to be examined.
This paper aims to clarify the way of thinking about male-female roles and sexual equality, and inclinations toward subjects, especially those related to women's problems, of women with higher education and with primary and secondary education.
A questionnaire was presented to women who have jobs and are learning in some institution of public adult education in Greater Tokyo, as part of a research project in which the author participated, which was funded by the Ministry of Education. The data was evaluated taking into account the educational backgrounds of the participants.
The findings are as follows:
(1) Women with higher education don't approve of the traditional sexual division of labor and inequality between men and women. They also feel discontented with the position of Japanese women today.
(2) Women with higher education are more interested in learning cultural and social sciences than women with primary and secondary education, who are highly interested in learning subjects related to their hobbies.
(3) Both groups are interested in subjects related to women's problems of everyday life, but women with higher education are also interested in learning about the theory of women's problems.