ABSTRACT
Not since the Second World War have women apparently been in such demand in the labour market. The Government has been encouraging employers to recognise that they will need to recruit women returners; it claims that they ‘must recognise that women can no longer be treated as second class workers’. This chapter focuses on women returning to the labour market who may well not be returning to an old employer or previous line of work: more than half of all returners are thought to take up a new type of work with a different employer. It examines the training needs of and training provision for women returners, drawing upon a number of empirical studies. Women as a group are less likely to have had access to certificated further and higher education and vocational training than men.
