Throughout history of mankind, rank of women has been extremely pivotal in development of humans. At present, progress of nation is determined by high positions of women in society in terms of employment and work. It is said that without contribution of women in political, business, social, economic and national activities, growth of country will stagnate. In past, women were more accustomed to working in homes and taking care of children, etc. but now they are stepping into outside world due to advances in education for women and increasing awareness.

In past few decades, role of women in our society has been drastically changed. Women can be seen as fighter-jet pilots, educationists, customer services head, company executives, admin heads, banking, HR and telecom sector. Women are making a tremendous contribution in each sector. Men are no longer considered as only bread earner of house. Women of family are now also financially supporting their family. Though, number of working women is increasing day by day but still there are certain barriers that they have to cross to prove themselves beneficial for job market.

Women work throughout world. It’s only women of upper class and middle class who have always been confined to their homes. But now with passage of time since more liberty and rights have been given to women so numbers of working women in different areas have increased now. Irrespective of profession women have to play more than one role. Working women have a whole new set of problems involving both family and professional lives. Since, working women go beyond boundary line of their homes, they seem to be deviating from their traditional roles of wives. Such things may affect both-role of woman and interpersonal relations with their husbands. Women have to play their role as a wife, a mother and as an earner. While for man, if he is working in a profession family always try to provide him with comfort and support. On contrary, for working women it means two sets of overlapping responsibilities. Therefore, role of family caretaker, in addition to their professional role seems to be one of major sources of stress that working have to face.

Undoubtedly every woman is very special and must be treated as special. She is significant in her own personality. As she does not only deal with her own issues but so many others like husband, children, in-laws, co-workers, employees, boss etc. We are living in a gender bias society where there is a clear-cut discrimination everywhere. Work done by men is ‘work’ whereas work done by women is of no worth and is considered somehow like ‘nothing’.

Today, women represent over 40 percent of global labour force. Approximately 70 percent of women in developed countries and 60 percent in developing countries are engaged in paid employment. Worldwide, more women than ever before are completing higher levels of education. Better job opportunities have increased many women’s independence and resulted in a new status and role in their families and society. In Pakistan too women are becoming educated at very fast speed and also doing different kinds of jobs in different fields.

However, women of our society work and contribute to economy in one form or another, much of their work is not documented or accounted for in official statistics. Women plow fields and harvest crops while working on farms, women weave and make handicrafts while working in household industries, women sell food and gather wood while working in informal sector. Additionally, women are traditionally responsible for daily household chores.

Although cultural restrictions women face is changing, women are still not as free as men to participate in formal economy. In past, cultural restrictions were primary impediments to female employment now however; shortage of jobs throughout country contributes to low female employment as well. Number of female main workers has grown faster in recent years than that of their male counterparts.

Despite fact that women are courageous but also, they face too many obstacles in workplace like gender-based discrimination, harassment, domestic restriction, work and family issues and unequal pay. These triggers lead a woman towards stress and anxiety. In stress relating issues we can rate negative attitude of surrounding people at highest rank. Likewise, another great challenge that every working has to face is to create a balance between family and her workplace. If woman cannot create a balance between these two areas, it results in stress among them and this condition of stress then heads to abominable health conditions of women

Eventually, there is a need to change attitude of employers, policy makers, politicians and family members. They should provide tension free environment to working women at place of work as well as at home. have an important role to play as far as economic development of country is concerned. Government has increased importance of women by adopting various schemes and programmes. Women should also be encouraged to take benefits of policy measures introduced by government.

Although there have been many improvements for women in workplace but there are still many inequalities for women when compared to men. Remedies are needed to secure a fair and equal role in workplace. This change can only fully occur when we change attitudes of every individual toward women. When we accomplish that then we can finally achieve gender equality in workplace.