The Women´s Training Centre started its activities in the early 1990s. Its establishment was prompted by the need to provide women orientation and help in finding new employment opportunities and facing new challenges under the changed socio-economic conditions accompanying transition to a market economy.

During its operation the Women´s Training Centre has introduced into its activities the following new topics:

1991  Business courses for women: How to start your own business
1992  Establishment of the organisation Business and Professional Women, Estonia
1995  Democracy training for women, women´s integration into public life,
          gender equality
1997  Initiator of the establishment of the Estonian Women´s Studies and Resource
          Centre
1999  International and national mentoring programmes for women 
2001  Democracy and leadership training abroad
          Promotion of women´s careers

The total number of participants in the first ten years of operation: 7000.

The courses were followed by several contact seminars with participants from among Finnish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian busineswomen,

The WTC was active in preparing the national report to and the participation of the Estonian delegation in the 4th World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing.