Abstract:
Purpose of the Research
Despite the increasing number of women in workforce, the barriers for women’s career
progression still exists. This study has been conducted to identify and analyze the factors acting as
barriers towards women’s career advancement. This study assess women’s career advancement as
a dependent variable, and education level, family consideration, gender discrimination, work-life
imbalance and glass ceiling effect as independent variable
Research Method/ Sampling
This research is quantitative in nature and the data was collected through primary sources. This
study targets women working in Karachi, for the purpose of data collection we used convenience
sampling, and the data was collected from 308 respondents, who were all working women in
Karachi and for the purpose of analyzing the data of findings of this research the statistical tool
SPSS have been applied.
Findings of the Research
In this study all hypothesis were statistically analyzed and examined. The independent variables
education level, family consideration, and glass ceiling effect are significant to and positively
related with dependent variable career advancement for women, while gender discrimnation, and
work-life imbalance were insignificant to and negatively related with career advancement for
women, which is statistically proved through Multiple Linear Regression
Practical Implications of the Research
It is vital for government and employers to have an understanding of the barriers to women career
advancement for facilitating a favorable environment to invite and retain women in workforce. On
the basis of the results of this research, such an environment can be created at workplace by the
government and employers which will help women in overcoming the barriers to their career
advancement
