The unfavorable position of women on the labor market is a burning issue that cannot be solved successfully even in today's modern world. In this paper, we will deal with the issue of women entering the labor market and what consequences it has had on them, their families, the society and the workplace. Before the need for female labor emerged, which is before the period of industrialization and the two World Wars, between which the suffragette movement appeared, the role of women in all areas of life was degraded. From being exclusively housewives, mothers and wives, industrialization as the main initiator of changes in the world of employment made women workers, who, for the first time ever, got the role of breadwinner of the family, receiving a salary for work that, although only ostensibly, moved from the home to the workplace. As a result, despite the numerous positive results of the fight for the right to work and other women's rights, there was a conflict between the family and business life of working women, which appeared thanks to the traditional gender division of roles within the family. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to describe the thorny path of women towards the realization of their requested rights, which, in addition to freedom, many opportunities and independence, brought the appearance of double standards where they are expected to do paid work outside the home as well as household chores that their husbands did not even partially take upon themselves- therefore, everyone should contribute in order to finally establish a balance in this sense.