Adult Education and Women in Portugal: a Review of the Literature 2012-2016 of Elisabete Correia Brito, Marta Abelha, Manuela Barreto Nunes Appears After the Title of The Factor of Social Affiliation of Youth in Promoting Citizenship of Pavels Jurs and Alida Samusevica

Between 1999 and 2011 a national program of adult's education and training was developed in Portugal. This program was the subject of around 200 scientific publications, 20 of them centered on the impact of the courses in women and specifically regarding the promotion of information literacy competencies. The present paper intends to analyze those publications, aiming to characterize them and identify the results that were achieved regarding the assessment and impact of the courses in the students' lives. The methods applied coincide with the ones of a literature review, including bibliographic search and retrieval and content and bibliometric analysis. Results show that although little attention is given by the scientific community to this subject, the impact on the lives of the women that attended the courses is significant and worthy of further investment and development.