Gender biasness has been existing since centuries in the world of recruitment and selection. As much as the job description depicts the role being inclined to technical details, Gender Biasness has been in the roots of corporate hierarchy and silently paves its way to the selection criteria. Gender biasness’ approach has changed from time to time and region to region. In some countries, women are given preference over job whereas others think men fit better in the corporate world.

Pakistan however has a rich inclusivity in gender biasness. All of the top professions are scrutinized based on gender and then comes the skills.

• Software industry: The eye candy to Pakistan – so much that it receives major tax exemptions. Mostly, boys are preferred as it is presumed that girls cannot do late sitting as it requires in the software industry. Even the girls that recieve calls for openings answer if they will be able to work late night and then their applications are processed.

• Human Resource: Search on LinkedIn and you will find 90% of the females dominating in HR. This career capacity is highly biased and people here think females do the job better than male in hiring talent and managing them because they are more convincing and powerful figures.

• Call Center: As much as it is a male dominated professional, phone banking is highly paid for females because similar to HR, men in these industry think a female voice can yield better sales than male. According to a latest research, most of the owners of call centers think that females do have better stats of lead generation than male hence must be paid better.

• Fashion: Very few businesses focus on men’s fashion. Most of the brands glamorizing and spending Millions on advertisements are destined towards women customers. Hence the scope of female models in this industry is most prominent. Women models likewise are paid more with better career opportunities.

• Unskilled Workers: There is almost no scope for unskilled female workers in Pakistan. The most they can do is cleaning and household chores in homes of the rich. Men whereas have a wide range of opportunities such as building homes, roads, paint, work in civil services, postman etc. In developed countries like the US, there are women who have made it to special service teams like fire fighting however in Pakistan, unskilled and illiterate women have a very limited scope of work. Most of the times, it is presumed that women have lesser physical and mental stability which is why they cannot do good at odd jobs.

Personally, whenever I’ve tried bragging about an easy job such as social media management, ive been declined with the response that they’re looking for female candidates and they have allocated outgoing positions that involve visits to males. As organizations strive to create a gender balance, they have allocated positions for males and females creating a strong scope for biasness and limiting choices of individuals who want to explore fields irrespective of gender.

The author, Talha Ahmed is a MBA Grad from IOBM and currently in his final semester, exploring the possibilities of corporate world. He loves to write about career and social issues.