A study examined the training needs of women working in moderate-sized enterprises owned by their husbands. Information collected from interviews with spouses of business owners in Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and Italy confirmed the original hypothesis that in the kind of enterprise studied it is the man who owns the business and the wife who assumes various duties without having the necessary training. In Belgium, Denmark, West Germany, and France special educational opportunities, consisting mainly of courses in administrative functions, were available for the co-working spouse. Although actual statistical data were not available, the consensus among the co-working spouses interviewed was that they do not avail themselves of existing educational opportunities to a satisfactory extent. Reasons cited for failure to participate in available educational programming included lack of time, distance to school or college, time and form of courses, price, course content, and attitudes toward education. The general picture concerning the role of the children in these enterprises was that they do not wish to follow in their parents' footsteps. (Appended to this report is a discussion of the treatment within the European community of the educational situation of co-working wives of business owners in rural communities.) (MN)