An organisation for gender equality at the workplace
Women On Top is a non-profit organization aiming for the professional empowerment of women and for equality at work. It was founded in 2012 and since then has created and monitored over 830 mentoring partnerships for the benefit of unemployed women, women who want to change their professional career, establish themselves in male-dominated professions, build their own businesses etc.
It has also trained over 1200 unemployed, employed and self-employed women in skills camps offering childcare for the little ones of those who are mothers.
Moreover, through the Women on Top in Business initiative, we provide training, consulting and project management services to businesses and organizations wishing to prioritize the equal representation of women at work, by investing in the diversity and inclusivity of their talent pools as well as to the work/life balance of their employees.
Last but not least, it has developed a wide communication and content creation platform (surveys, articles, podcasts, events etc), in order to build powerful networks around the goal of gender equality, help promote positive and strong female role models and raise awareness, among the general public as well as decision making bodies, around the obstacles that women face, even in this day and age, in their equal participation in public life.
Women on Top is supported by HIGGS, an incubator for the development of Non Profit Organizations in Greece.
Our story
We founded Women On Top based on our own need, in different phases of our professional life, to find and work with women who have already faced the challenges we were facing and to draw from their knowledge, experience and inspiration to make our professional dreams come true.
Then we began to study in depth the factors that inhibit the professional development of women and their equal participation in the Greek labor market and decision-making centers.
Women on Top has now transformed into an organization with the vision to empower women at all stages of their lives, eliminating gender discrimination at work and promoting the equal participation of men and women in the economy for the sake of us all.
Our vision
To eliminate the obstacles that inhibit the equal participation of women in the labor market, i.e.:
Increased unemployment
Low representation in positions of responsibility
Low representation in male-dominated and STEM fields
The gender wage gap
Sexual harassment
The lack of work/life balance
… on the one hand, by empowering them and, on the other, by bringing a change in the social, labor and political environment around them.
Our initiatives
We implement initiatives (mentoring, training, consulting and project management, educational interventions, research, policy proposals) aimed to empower women in different phases of their professional life, but also to improve the social, labor and political environment within which they develop.
Our impact
Volunteer mentors
Completed mentoring relationships
Participants in professional development workshops
- Participants who have evaluated WoT’s initiatives as absolutely or very effective in relation to their goals and prior expectations. 82%
Women on Top is supported by HIGGS, an incubator for the development of Non Profit Organizations in Greece.
Founding team

Stella Kasdagli
Co-founder

Pinelopi Theodorakakou
Personal & Executive Coach

Galini Iliopoulou
Organisational psychologist