PROBLEMS FOR WOMEN IN WORKPLACE IN PAKISTAN:

Pakistan is a country with a population of 22 crores with women, men, and transgender in it.
According to the data comes from World Bank’s Gender Portal Data and UN Women
Pakistan:

48% is the overall population of women in Pakistan

22.5% of women are part of labour force

14.4 % of women are employed in industries in Pakistan

25% of women are wage and salaried workers

60 is the number of seats for women in Parliament out of a total of 342

57% is the female mortality rate

30% of women (age 15+) are living with HIV in Pakistan

2.9% of women are employed in senior and middle management positions

21% of women in Pakistan are married before the age of 18

27% of women experience intimate partner or domestic violence in their lifetime

Pakistan is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of women joining its workforce. But
the country is grappling with physical, psychological, and sexual harassment of women in the
workplace.

According to a February 2011 report on Women in the Boardrooms, women now make up
4.6 per cent of board members of Pakistani companies and women members hold 78 seats out
of the 342 seats in the National Assembly in Islamabad. Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina
Rabbani, the speaker of the National Assembly, Fehmida Malik and the country's new
ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman are all women who work in Pakistan at
highest position in past time.Women’s participation rate has almost doubled in 22 years
(1992-2014) but the increase isn’t happening fast enough and with much of our population in
the youth category, we need to rapidly take measures to address gaps in women’s work status
to achieve our goal.

According to news shown on Pakistan media the small girls at the age of 10 are raped. Which
is not the good sign for Pakistani women. This create a fear for families to not let their girls,
sisters, daughters, and wives to work outside from home. Pakistani government taking actions
to stop this crime and making effort to provide a clear environment for women to work but
there are stills many challenges women are facing in Pakistan.

Challenges Faced by Working Women in Pakistan

Less appreciation

Working women in Pakistan who must take care of their families are often having to deal
with the situation that pushed them to the point where they almost give up. ...

Family expectations

Double burden. ...

Busy routine affects children. ...

Have you ever experienced the feeling of being left out in your working society for the sole
reason that you are a woman? Or have you ever been denied of a job that you truly deserved
just because you are a girl? Have you ever been denied of the appreciation that you truly
deserved for being a girl? Well! this is something that a working Pakistani Woman
experiences everyday. This is a usual practice of Pakistanis to regard women as a class lower
to men. They are never appreciated for their faculties or hard works because they are women.
Here we will look into some of the main problems that Pakistani Women face at their
workplace.

Harassment:

There is no such day when women are not harassed by men at their workplace. At least
65/100 Pakistani working women receive the harassment at their workplace and there is
nothing that they can do about it. There are many videos came on social media which shows
how much harassment women face during work. There are no proper arrangements for them
to report the harassment cases or harassment acts that adds more to the misery of the working
women.

Preference to men:

Pakistan is a male preferential society. Every time when a woman competes with a man for a
job or any post then she is snatched off her just right for the only reason that she is not a man.
Women are just consider as object. Men are always preferred for the jobs as the hiring
companies believe that men have greater faculties as compared to women and they can
handle the work more efficiently.

Treated As an Object:

Women are always treated as an object. They are not taken as humans with real or true
feelings. Men, at the work place, consider that each woman that comes to work with them is
nothing more than an object to be amused of. They are always busy in hitting on them with
their vile intentions that annoys the women a lot and hinders their movement towards the
progress.

House Chores:

Here comes the most disturbing part. It is a common perception among the people of Pakistan
that women are only made to deal with the house chores like cooking, cleaning and washing
etc. If ever a woman steps her foot out of the house for the purpose of work then she is not
spared off the house chores even a little. To be honest, she is loaded more with the house
work so that she may quite her job and sit at home. This is actually a way that people of
Pakistan employ to hinder the progress of women of Pakistan. Not only men but some of the
women are also involved in pulling the legs of other women in this regard. Such women are
the real cause for the slow development of the working women of this country.

Less Wages:

The women in Pakistan are offered less wages for their services. To add more, their wages
are always lesser than that of men as it is commonly believed that men have to support their
families whereas women work to earn for fulfilling their desires.

Husband’s Reactions:

Mostly, the women who are married always have to receive the insecurities of their husbands.
Their husbands always remain sceptical about the movements of their wives and blame them
for the acts that they have not even thought of. For this reason, women either lie to their
husbands or get their progress hurt or hindered. Moreover, if a woman ever happens to be
earning more than the guy then he gets jealous of her or at least become insecure that in turn
makes the woman to leave her job.