COMMUNITY MEN’S SHEDS AND INFORMAL LEARNING: An Exploration of Their Gendered Roles

Our general intention in this chapter is to explore some of the gendered aspects of learning that have been recognised through the creation of the community men’s sheds movement during the past decade in four countries. It includes a new and critical exploration of women’s historic and current role in the community men’s shed movement across four nations to 2014. It is timely that we revisit and expand on our early and tentative observations (Golding & Foley, 2008; Golding, Kimberley, Foley & Brown, 2008) about the emerging role of women in men’s sheds, at a time (in 2014) when the