Gender, training
and work
Vocational and technical training policies,
in their role as the meeting point between the productive
system and the men and women who produce, are a strategic,
pro-active tool to foster equity, in the fight against poverty
and “to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate
the damaging effects of the forces of change in the world."
ILO/Cinterfor has a fruitful history of
working on the interconnections between training and gender,
so it can maintain that the structural integration of the
gender dimension into the design and management of policies
for training and to support employment is a question of
rights and of economic efficiency, but is also a factor
in innovation and in improving the relevance, quality and
equity of interventions.
To incorporate the gender approach into
training and employment policies and programmes is to embark
on a committed and far-reaching process of restructuring,
innovation, and continual improvement in quality and equity
in policies and programmes. In other words, it means a profound
revision of the very foundations of these programmes. This
is why it is crucial to base its adoption on innovative
experiences and to bring to light the deep-rooted connections
between gender, innovation and quality in interventions.
