Due to imported global economic problems as well as domestic unsuccessful policies, the country is confronted in the recent years with rising rates of inflation, unemployment above the EU average, poverty, the rise of household debt, phenomena of corruption. Unfavorable changes, such as the shrinkage of employment rights and protection, together with the diffusion of short-term flexible employment and fragmented reward systems, the adherence to policies of more privatisation and less state, changes in the social security and tax system, contribute to the expansion of income inequality and poverty. All these changes affect significantly the living standard of Greek people, especially that of women, who are still the disadvantaged ones in the family, the labor market and the society as a whole. It is assumed though that, because of unequal regional economic growth and disparities in the regional options, the well being of women will differentiate regionally as well. The aim of the paper is to explore the regional differentiation of the objective well-being of Greek women, that is, to examine whether there are regional inequalities in the well-being:
It is hypothesized that women are better off in regions that offer better access to education and health services, better labour market opportunities, higher participation rates, more skilled jobs, lower levels of the officially recorded and of hidden unemployment, lower levels of hidden employment, higher incomes, lower gender wage gap, higher status in the occupation, more full-time than flexible jobs, less poverty. Keywords: Gender well-being, Gender disparities, Regional disparities,
JEL-Codes: I3, J16, O1, R20, R23