GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN BANKING INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN

Abstract

Gender equality in the workplace is an ever evolving area and does not happen in a vacuum. The issues in the workplace are only one part of a much larger atmosphere of different, often unequal, treatment of personalities based on gender. Gender disparity is often based on thinking and perception of a certain society, considering men physically strong and women as passionately sensitive. Gender discrimination has had several psychosomatic effects on women who either resort to committing suicide, revolting in a parallel way or end up becoming psychological patients. My aim of the research was to govern the gender inequality in Pakistani Banking Sector, because the issues of women’s sovereignty, discrimination and their status has been observed internationally, because development of any nation is not possible if a large group of society prevent to do work. Gender discrimination slows down the productivity and eventually stops the economic growth. According to several studies women’s are treated unequally at work places, like unequal pay for same work, and less investment from employers in trainings. In Pakistan currently the female literacy rate is 32% as compare to the males those have 56%, while the rate of attending school is 73% and 27% correspondingly for boys and girls. In my research by going in different banks, I analysed how gender inequality conquered in their working environment. Though, I found a lot of trouble in my research because of controversial topic. Data was taken to govern ratio of males and females employees working in banks and according to my study most banks were male dominated and had an average ratio of 3 Males and 1 Female. According to employee’s point of view our society is male dominant, and women’s are physically weak. In the banking environment approval of documents by female have less value than the authorization by men employees as well as their conclusion making is not valued by the top management as associated to decision making of male employees, there was another characteristic which I found was the personal liking factor which overcame all over banking sector and was the main cause for discrimination among genders. Gender discrimination on the basis of employee’s sex is against the law; here I want to mention one thing that harassment is the form of direct discrimination. The gender discrimination must be controlled in banking industry of Pakistan.