Flexible, dynamic and innovative methods should be adapted to women learning pace, and timetables that ease girls and women attendance to literacy activities. Planning women and girls basic education and literacy activities in small groups increases participants self-esteem and linking these activities to sound income generation activities or to a development project makes the learning process more efficient and effective. Finally women attendance would definitely increase if facilities are created to ease their workload while attending the courses. Therefore programs and services such as food supply, child care and even groups that provide moral support should be organized together or as part of the program implementation. Gender as social category make references and allows analyses of different roles, responsibilities, rights, opportunities and limitations of men and women within the family, community, society and culture.
Gender is a term used to make references to women and men social relations.
Introducing a gender approach means to include subjects on gender relations, social individuals plurality, the concept of autonomy and the conflictive approach between social actors, alliances and negotiations, and on how to relate with the society. Teacher and adult educator training courses need to include the above topics. How to implement educational activities with a gender approach, some recommendations To plan activities for groups with men and women participation, one has to take into consideration the obstacles and difficulties that girls and women face when joining mixed groups already addressed in this paper. If the alternative chosen is to work with mixed groups, it is important to organize at the initial stages of the educational activities, small separated women sub groups as part of the main groups, with the tasks to strengthen the learning process and to discuss women particular problems. This proposal could help to overcome lack of self-esteem, discrimination or even uneasiness related to their participation in mixed groups.