ABSTRACT
This chapter presents information concerning women’s situation in employment and management and discusses related issues. In Greece, the employment of women has increased in recent decades and has improved regarding its occupational and industrial composition but the country is still among the EU members with the lowest women’s employment rate and less than half of working-age women are in employment. Data and research concerning the position of women in management in Greece are scant but whatever evidence exists indicates that, due to visible and invisible barriers, the top positions are held mostly by men. Entrepreneurial activity has always been an attractive employment option for women given their relatively high unemployment rates, their problems in moving up the managerial ladder and the fact that this activity offers greater work schedule flexibility, enabling women to better reconcile work with a family responsibilities.
