Thus, women are securing the prosperity of the country through their everyday work. Office work is also dominated by women, in both the public and the private sector. It is obvious that power and money are still controlled by men, although there are no formal obstacles to increasing the proportion of women. Finnish design, on the other hand, has had some very prominent women at the helm . Likewise, both the makers and consumers of Finnish culture are predominantly women.
Women also hold leading positions in cultural life.
T he division of labour between the sexes is also in evidence in salary levels. T raining and education have always been an important issue in Finnish women's efforts to improve their status. It was considered unseemly for a middle class woman to be in service or to work in a factory. They had to have 'cleaner' work. The improvement in girls' education made this possible.