In Finland the labour market partners have agreed on an experimental equality promotion project covering ten workplaces in various sectors of working life. The project will report on its progress in June 1999. Partinen also has positive expectations of the work to integrate job evaluation into equality work. Only 300,000 jobs in Finnish working life have been evaluated according to how demanding they are for the worker. Many more jobs will be evaluated over the next few years, thereby improving the basis for combating discrimination against women.
Individual workplaces are now at the centre of equality policy.
At this time Finland will preside at an EU equality summit. After this it will be possible to set up a European good practice bank. The trade union movement must launch constructive initiatives at grassroots level.