Challenges and Opportunities for the Involvement of Slovak Women into Management Positions

The submitted scientific paper deals with subject of women's challenges and opportunities in managerial position in frame of the V4 countries with primary focus to the Slovak women. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the issue of women situation as entrepreneurs and to define barriers which create the basic obstacles for higher involvement of women to the managerial positions. The data are obtained from own researchcarried out through the questionnaire survey, furthermore, from the EU databases, as well as from the international organisations ILO and OECD. Women are less keen than men on starting their own business and female entrepreneurs continue to be in minority. The enterprises owned by women are significantly smaller and they are less represented in capital-intensive sectors. These and other factors tend to have negative impact on their sales, profits and labour productivity. The biggest barriers for women in leadership are general social norms, cultural practices in country and patriarchal corporate culture.