The book aims to present a realistic picture of the status of women in the Bulgarian labor market based on extensive empirical data from official statistics, while also identifying the socio-demographic consequences of this status. One of the main conclusions of the study is that, even in the second decade of the transition to a market economy, women continue to face more complex socio-economic conditions that also affect their employment. Although the high rate of women’s participation in the labor market remains, significant changes are occurring in the gender distribution of paid work: today, men have a higher overall relative share of employment and dominate the private sector as entrepreneurs and the self-employed; women predominate in lower-paid but, in contrast, more secure jobs in the public sector, at lower levels of the private sector, and in the unpaid family sector. These aspects of a less favorable status in the labor market, which determine women’s lower socioeconomic status and the associated lower incomes, have direct sociodemographic consequences: unequal opportunities for their personal and career development, financial and social insecurity, and asymmetry in the distribution of domestic work and childcare. Women’s economic dependence is viewed as a key link in the chain that reproduces gender inequality.