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Career Aspirations and Opportunity for FWAs: Perceptions of Pakistani Women

The Journal of Management and Research

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Title Career Aspirations and Opportunity for FWAs: Perceptions of Pakistani Women
 
Creator Arif, Seema
Ejaz, Aqsa
Yousaf, Neelam
 
Description Want for a career in knowledge age is natural for any gender, so is for women of Pakistan. The long working hours and inflexible hard routines make it difficult for women to pursue both family and career at the same time. The paper validates an urgent need to revise work-time and work-space for the 21st century women with evolving meanings of career and life satisfaction for them. A qualitative inquiry was aimed to explore the career aspirations of Pakistani women and the opportunities they get for flexible work arrangements at their workplaces. Data was collected from 40 women working in a variety of professions through 3 focus groups, and 16 semistructured interviews. Interpretive analysis was used to derive detailed description through data. The perceptions of Pakistani women are highly gendered about their roles at home and work. They suffer from time bind, unable to manage their professional needs and their desire to have a successful married and family life. Whether married or unmarried, they found professional work hours highly stressful which are not only draining their physical and emotional energy, but affecting their social life and relationships, as well. With a poor sense of quality of life, it is hard to say whether women experience career satisfaction or satisfice.
 
Publisher University of Management and Technology
 
Date 2019-11-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.umt.edu.pk/index.php/jmr/article/view/208
10.29145/jmr/41/040105
 
Source Journal of Management and Research; Vol 4 No 1 (2017): Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017; 1-28
2519-7924
2218-2705
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.umt.edu.pk/index.php/jmr/article/view/208/93
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Editorial Assistant; Seema Arif, Aqsa Ejaz, Neelam Yousaf
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