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The Global Gender Gap Report 2018 benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, education, health and political criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups. (The World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2018). The situation varies from country to country despite the activities of the European Commission to harmonize existing disparities. Generally, Global Gender Gap slightly decreases, but in the contrary, it increased in Slovak Republic. At present the country is ranking within 149 benchmarked countries at 83rd position in the Report and having closed slightly more than 69% of its overall gender gap. The study presents the results of research focused on some aspects of assigning both the male and female on managerial positions. There is created sample of respondents of male and female managers from companies in Eastern Slovakia. Most of them are doing business in both the automotive repair industry and companies with similar branch activities. The results were drawn in way of applying the Chi-squared test of independence. Originality of this paper lies in displaying situation in Eastern part of Slovakia where business environment is characterized by slower economic development and traditional conservative social values than in western part of country.