ABSTRACT
T He objective of training the unemployed for the needs of the job market became a part of Finnish employment policy at the beginning of the 1970s. It was not until the 1990s, however, when governments adopted a neoliberal approach to employment issues, that job training programs became a major policy tool. In contrast, job training was an important part of the policy agendas of women's movements and women's policy agencies as early as the 1960s. More recently, job training for women became a less important feminist demand in the context of the gender equality laws of the 1980s 1 , higher rates of women's education compared to men, and a satisfactory presence of women in the work force.
