Employment of women in Pakistan

Abstract

Women’s employment in Pakistan has its own characteristics, which are associated both with the level of development of the country and with the local mentality. Standard Western practices remain insensitive to the majority of working women and therefore produce incorrect results. The patriarchal structure of society also contributes to limiting the work of women in a number of professions, but currently there are trends towards changing that situation. As in other countries around the world, working women face phenomena of discrimination at work that are similar to the world’s concerns and specific to Pakistan. Separately, one can note the situation with the lack of jobs for educated female youth, which is partially mitigated by the conditions of marriage for which a diploma is an additional part of the dowry. However, the issue of Pakistani women’s employment needs to be carefully studied with the creation of specific research methods to avoid “blind spots” and social archetypes, so that it will subsequently be possible to both create jobs and level out factors that complicate women’s employment.