Not so long ago, women were only responsible for the birth and care of children and the household, but the women of the 21st century have chosen to take their place in the world and raise awareness of the society in order to be viewed as equal and able to express themselves in the business world, not only as mothers and housewives. With an emotional and communicative style of leadership, many more opportunities have opened to women to show their competence in high ranking managerial positions. The feminization of management has led to increased profits, productivity and better business results in numerous organizations. Characteristics of the female style of leadership are associated with traditional female qualities such as empathy, sensitivity, openness, flexibility, understanding, and tolerance. Those organizations, that want to make the most of the benefits of applying the women's leadership style, need to put more women in managerial positions, precisely because this style of leadership is the most natural to women. Increasing awareness of gender and gender equality, and encouraging equal opportunities policy, Croatia and the rest of the world are given an opportunity to enable women's knowledge and skills to take a leading position in the organization. The problem area of this work is focused on considering the role of women in management with a particular reference to their presence in various hierarchical levels of management, and their role and position in leading and high-ranking positions in local self-management units and regional self-management in the Virovitica-Podravina County.