Women at work in Pakistan

Eeman is the Global Marketing Manager for INTTRA, an eCommerce shipping platform.  With an MBA from Karachi's Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Eeman is strengthening the ranks of Pakistan-educated professionals achieving success in corporate America. Born to Zafar Samdani, a well-known journalist, and a mother who teaches psychology at Government College.

With the rise in level of education, career aspirations, economic uncertainty, availability of career opportunities and denuclearized family units, society's structure is rapidly changing and more women are entering the work force and getting empowered. However, this empowerment is accompanied with great responsibility and demands dexterity, as working mothers have to encounter and resolve a myriad number of challenges and conflicts every day.

Therefore, considering the factor of mother in Pakistan, mother is no ordinary being but a working mother is mostly regarded as a super woman in the true essence; she has been endowed with super natural abilities to balance domestic and professional life. An ordinary woman has the primary role in her child's care and nurturing. So the women in particular have many responsibilities accompanied with her as a wife, sister-in-law, mother and many other relations. My main focus is the role of mother in nurturing her children and side by side maintaining the economic balance with her family.

After going through different news stories and articles i found many case studies which indicated that a mother focuses on the health of her children as well as maintains her job and other such responsibilities as cooking and looking after the house. Considering the facts and figures suggested by some articles, it was recorded that the percentage of working women in the field of economic stability is increased to a great extent as compared to 10 years.

Mothers in general and working mothers in particular are always juggling multiple responsibilities and expectations. For a single and
and working mother, the challenge gets raised a few more notches as she has to be a bread winner as well as the care giver, a sole guardian and a role model. Thus, whether a woman chooses to stay at home or work, she deserves the support and cooperation of those around her; husband, in-laws, parents and bosses.