Management of Gender Discrimination Faced By the Women Working in Government Organizations of Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) Of Pakistan

Hafiz Ghufran Ali Khan ,Babar Majeed Rathore, Muhammad Ilyas

Volume 12 Issue 1

Global Journal of Human-Social Science

The research is conducted to explore working women’s conditions in government organizations. For this purpose a sample of women employees working in government organization were taken from Gilgit city. A sampleof 50 working women was taken from government organization in Gilgit city. The age group of selected sample ranged between 20-49 years. The qualification of the respondents was usually under-graduate and graduate, the working experience of the sample range between 1-25 years.The research is descriptive in nature and it describesthe conditions of working women in govt. organization of Gilgit city. The collected data reveals that 38% women agree with gender policy and 62% do not agree. Variant views are found about issues like female employees face harassment at work place. This statement is supported by 26% female employees while 74% working women are against the statement, pick and drop facility for female staff is supported by 86% on the other hand 14% working women does not want to avail this facility.Finding indicates that inequality with women or lack of opportunities for women in job market is a serious issue. This research shows that female employees face many difficulties in Govt. organization such as discriminatory gender policy, lack of trainings, pick and drop facility, even in some organization female employees don’t have separate toilets. Almost all organization did not have day care centre for children’s of working women, Timings are inflexible for female employees. Lack of appreciation for their work, internet facilities at work place, lack of official accommodation and cafeteria facility are the major concerns of working women of northern areas of Pakistan.