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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

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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

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. ...

• Less appreciation
• Family expectations
• Double burden
• Busy routine affects children. ...

Problems

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 considered 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 workplace, consider that each woman that comes to work with them is nothing

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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 housework
so that she may quite her job and sit at home. This is 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.

All these problems are mainly faced by the women in Pakistan. All provinces of Pakistan are
not same there is some relaxation in Punjab and Sindh. But in other provinces women never go
outside for work there are many strict rules for women they must wear Abaya when they go
outside also the women are not allowed to travel alone. Research shows that women
performance a higher post is better than men. In Pakistan, the glass ceiling concept is reducing.
Women are getting more education than men they are also taking part in works. But the
challenges are still there. Our government should take action to protect women from these
problems.