Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The main cognitive aim of this thesis is to identify and examine the role of women in comparison to men, in the business sector across countries all over the world. The other aim of the work is to prove the diversity of women's leadership style by showing its attributes compared to the leadership style used by men. What is more, a further aim is to present and examine barriers that appear when women are promoted to executive roles in business. Finally, the last detailed purpose is to show the factors that influence the improvement possibilities in achieving professional success. A worldwide change in gender perception puts more and more expectations towards women, hence inter alia the role of women in business underlies continuous progress. It is currently a popular issue touched on by the society and aims to change the perspective of professionally successful women. This topic is extremely interesting considering the fact that more and more women have been promoted to executive roles in the business sector. The business world deliberates still on new possibilities of profit augmentation, on most effective approaches to management methods and on the application of best leadership styles by executives. At present, the strategy of increasing the number of women in top management levels and in board rooms is applied more often. A lot of attention is also paid to the gender balance in companies due to many advantages that accompany the phenomenon. Various studies present that advancing to top management positions is much harder for women than it is for men. Women have to work harder and prove themselves more in order to be promoted to decision-making positions. Reasons for this situation are prejudice, stereotypes, gender bias and the overall gender differences that exist in favor of men. The tendency to prefer men than women in promoting them to high management positions differs, of course, from country to country and from one part of the world to another. It can be justified by cultural differences, which are related to economic development of the country, the political system and religion. It is worth to mention that there is a significant difference in the position of women between European countries, USA and developing countries.