As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, women have proven to play a crucial role in boosting family economies during post-COVID-19 economic recovery (Ge et al., 2022). However, regulations supporting women's empowerment are still minimal in many countries. This book focuses on gender equality from a diverse perspective, focusing on women's positions in economic and sociocultural activities and directing attention toward organizational leadership structures. The role of women is explored in depth, considering the new challenges and opportunities they face after the COVID-19 pandemic.The book consists of 28 chapters that highlight diverse innovations, ranging from the approaches and methodologies used to the main focal points. In this review, I categorize the 28 chapters into five identifiable critical thematic points in the book. The first issue addressed in the book is the discrimination challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship. The literature reviews by Arena, Catuogno, Paoloni and Pastore (Chapter 1), Paoloni and Manzo (Chapter 6) and Serafini (Chapter 7) reveal common concerns faced by women venturing into the business world during the pandemic. These issues include their ability to sustain businesses and adapt to technology, the limited access to capital, and the need for external motivation. Ricco and Bianchi (Chapter 8) delve deeper by conducting empirical research on the performance of women entrepreneurs during the 2008-2010 crisis; their study found that most women-owned businesses need help to overcome critical phases and tend to experience failure due to limited access to information, capital and government.The discrimination immigrant women face while running businesses is the focus of de Andreis and Rusciani (Chapter 9), who report that immigrant women encounter more significant challenges, not only due to gender-related issues but also stemming from social injustice surrounding their marginalized cultural backgrounds. These findings are consistent with previous research emphasizing the disparities and hurdles immigrant women entrepreneurs face (Sarihasan et al., 2023;Temizkan and Uslu, 2023). De Andreis (Chapter 27) also provides another perspective on discrimination of women in the male-dominated aviation industry. Despite possessing flight licenses, women still face biased perceptions among aviation professionals, who tend to place greater trust in men within this sector.The findings reported in this book on issues of discrimination against women underscore the need for future policies and research directions to address gender equality, emphasizing