“Although the subject of female leadership is very well documented at an international level, Pakistan still lacks enough research in this area. This scarcity of research gives rise to a commonly held belief that gender equality has been achieved in Pakistan which hides the gender stereotypes and discrimination practices still prevailing in the country.” “Digging into the experiences of thirty working women, this study examined the effect indigenous culture of Pakistan has in shaping their life experiences as well as career success. The study followed a qualitative research approach with phenomenological theoretical framework. Fifteen females were interviewed from urban areas and fifteen from rural areas to draw a holistic picture of indigenous culture of Pakistan and its effect on career success of females.” “Female participants of this study were interviewed on skype and the data gathered through these interviews was analysed using grounded theory approach. Interviews were taken in Urdu and transcriptions were prepared in English to conduct analysis for this study. Seven categories were initially developed through open coding, followed by three clusters through axial coding an lastly the study created a theoretical framework through selective coding. Findings of the study indicate that indigenous culture strongly effects the career success of working women in Pakistan. Based on thematic analysis, the study concludes that indigenous culture of Pakistan puts taboos on females in the form of family bevahior, expectations and the structurally enforced inferior status of females which effects their leadership skills negatively and restricts their career growth.” “Indigenous culture of Pakistan creates mobility issues for women which restricts the possibility to join better jobs at other places instead of their home town and it also effects expansion of entrepreneurial ventures by restricting females to their home towns. Apart from social mobility, culture restricts the decision making power of females which effects their self-recognition and vision development and other skills necessary to become a better leader. Females also face difficulty managing work and family life because of the uneven domestic work burden on females and the concept that woman is the caretaker of house no matter how tough her job gets. Single females don’t face the problem of managing house work and family life however they face issues such as social immobility, preference of male colleagues over them because of their perceived short work life, lack of decision making power and lack of self-confidence.” “The participants were of the view that despite of all the challenges brought by culture, they are still struggling for their career and fighting against the taboos put by culture.” “Respondents of this study agreed that their family support is most important factor for them to stand against the cultural taboos and pursue their dreams. Therefore, this study concludes that there is a strong need to change the mind-set prevailing in these societies that female is a creature who has to be agreeable and caretaker of family and who is responsible for saving relationships. Although efforts have been done to give women equal rights in Pakistan, these efforts will become more meaningful if general perception of society about women and their role starts to change which will require awareness programmes and cooperation from academic institutions and policy makers.” Page 4 of 97 Impact of Indigenous culture on Female Leadership in Pakistan “This study recommends a future research on the perception of males about female colleagues working with them in order to examine if males of countries like Pakistan are ready to accept female leaders. As this study was conducted on females only, for future it is recommended to examine the mind set of males of the society to draw a comparison between situation of females and impact of males mind set on this situation.”

Balance between career and the family life from the point of view of an employer in the public sector: A case study of one public sector organisation Abstract Adéla Babková The diploma thesis is focused on the topic of the attitude of the employers to the parenthood of the employees. Different scientific researches prove that in the Czech Republic, there is a strong opinion that the best strategy for the development of a little child is an all-day mother's care at home till reaching the age of three years. Other researches show that there exists a discrepancy in the declared interest in using different forms of work-family balance tools and the real situation in this field. The aim of this diploma thesis is to understand and to explain the attitude of an employer to the parenthood of the employees and to the different situations that the parenthood of the employees can bring. In the first two opening chapters of the diploma thesis, there is an introduction to the topic and its context, the definition of the research problem and the research inquiries. The following part consists of the theoretical concepts linked up with the chosen topic or concepts influencing this field. In the next part, there is the qualitative case study of the chosen employer subject including the sampling methods, the methods of...

Adéla Babková SLAĎOVÁNÍ RODINNÉHO ŽIVOTA A PRACOVNÍ KARIÉRY Z POHLEDU ZAMĚSTNAVATELŮ Abstract of the diploma thesis The diploma thesis is focused on the topic of the attitude of the employers to the parenthood of their employees. Different scientific researches prove that in the Czech society, there is a strong opinion that the best strategy for the development of a little child is an all-day mother's care at home till reaching the age of three years. Other researches show that there exists a discrepancy in the declared interest in using different forms of work-family balance tools and the real situation in this field. The aim of this diploma thesis is to understand and to explain the attitude of the employers to the parenthood of their employees and to the different situations that the parenthood of the employees can bring. In the first two opening chapters of the diploma thesis, there is an introduction to the topic and its context, the definition of the research problem and the research inquiries. The following part consists of the theoretical concepts linked up with the chosen topic or concepts influencing this field. In the next part, there is the qualitative case study of the chosen employer subject including the sampling methods, the methods of collecting data and also the methods of the data...