The quantity of women involved in the economic and business life has grown. They take a significant part of places in the top management of the companies and many of them own their own business.

The question of the women entrepreneurship is very actual nowadays as there are still obstacles for women who want to climb the career ladder. In some countries, the companies don’t want to hire women with little children as they often go on a sick leave. They are also not likely to hire young ladies who have just married as they may get pregnant and will not work effectively. In addition, men have used to thinking that women should be occupied with children, cooking, housework, etc., but not business. This stereotype has to be broken as well.

How can women break the glass ceiling?

First of all, the governmental programs supporting women entrepreneurship should be created. There should not be any restrictions for women to be hired and to get top positions in the companies. The grants for the best women business cases will also increase the chances of the fast development of the women entrepreneurship. It would also be beneficial for women to get privileges or subsidies when setting-up of a company or a start-up.

Nowadays, big international companies pay much attention to the gender equality in their companies. They mention a minimum percentage of the places which should be occupied by the women. The owners of such companies understand pretty well that gender diversity brings the variety and creates added value for the company.

State of things

The statistics asserts that in 49 countries of the world the percentage of women involved in politics and business is bigger than that of men. According to the Global Gap Report, the percentage of women working in business has grown only for 4% since 2006, which leave a huge area for improvement for the future. The leaders in gender equality are such countries as Finland, Sweden, Norway and Island. Credit Suisse Research Institute claims that the companies which have a bigger part of women in the board of directors are more profitable and efficient, which proves that women bring added value for the companies.

In 2011, France adopted the law according to which the companies consisting of 500 employees and more should have 40% of women in the board of directors. In Britain the companies report the share of women in the top- management and their gender policy on a yearly basis. For the moment, female top managers are more frequent in the health, beauty, consumer goods and finance companies.

All the above mentioned proves that women have all the chances to break the glass ceiling. The European countries are on the right way and with some time they will manage to set gender equality in the entrepreneurship.