Problems of Working Women in Islamabad: A Case of Four Public Organizations

Abstract

Working women face many problems at the work place. Women workers face more challenges than male workers. For instance, being a working woman they are also house hold women and they have many responsibilities as well as professional responsibilities. They have to maintain balance between her home and career. Different problems such as attitude of society members and prejudice adversely affect the utilization of their talent and working abilities. The objectives of the study were to:(a) Find out the problems faced by the working women (b) Find out the attitude of their families towards working women (c)Check the existing status and security of the women. The study was a survey research type. Design of the study was a quantitative research. All the working women of Islamabad was population of the research study. The simple random sampling technique was used to select working women from various professions. Questionnaire was designed in order to collect data that was comprised of open ended and close ended questions. Population of the study was working women of Islamabad. Data were collected by personal visits. Questionnaires were distributed to a sample of 54 working women in Islamabad and thus data were collected. Data analysis were done through calculating mean score, percentage and frequencies. Result of the study shows that working women face multiple problems at workplace including, harassment, gender discrimination, work family adjustment and lack of support from the family. Study recommended that work organizations should provide a gender discrimination free environment and families might help and support working women to bring productivity and creativity in their work as this will help the families to lessen the financial burden.