This document discusses formal and informal employment sectors in Pakistan. It notes that 31.86% of women work in the informal sector compared to 17.28% in the formal sector. The informal sector lacks worker protections like contracts, set wages and hours, grievance mechanisms, and social security. The document recommends improving linkages between formal and informal sectors to help more women transition to formal employment which provides greater economic and social advancement. Getting more women into the formal workforce through supportive policies and programs can boost productivity, growth, and development.

1. NAME: AMMARA LATIf
DATE 12-05-2014

2. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

3. "All those types of employment which offers regular
wages and normal hours and carry with them
employment rights and on which income tax is paid"

4. Formal sector
 a worker has a Formal contract
with the employer
 a worker has a predefined work
conditions
 a worker gets an assured and
decent fixed salary with perks
and incentives
 a worker has fixed duration of
work
 a worker is a part of organized
group of people working in the
same environment and are
legally and socially aware about
its rights
 a worker is covered by social
security for health and life risks
Informal sector
 a worker has no Formal contract
with the employer
 a worker has no systematic work
conditions
 a worker is irregularly and
unevenly paid
 a worker has no forum to
express his grievances and has
no fixed hours to work and
mostly earns hand to mouth
 they are not a part of organized
group of labor force
 a worker is not covered by any
social security and has poor
knowledge about the need to
protect himself socially and
economically

5. Out of 100% of the total population of Pakistan
50.86% are consist of males whereas 49.14% are
female where 31.86% women's work in informal sector
and only 17.28% works in formal sector.

6. WOMENS LABOR
PARTICIPATION

7. • Harassment
• Violence
• Discrimination and shame
• Gender inequality
• Psychological block
• Housewives are not eligible for outside work
• Lack of guidance

8.  Gender equality enhances productivity and fosters economic
growth
 Decrease global hunger
 Investing more on quality education and health
 Women in leadership brings more profits to the organization
 Women's get more self-esteem ,confidence, and greater
economic security
 Gets more respect and importance of there decisions among
there families
 Relief from home stress and reduction in family fights
 Become economically more relaxed

9. Great Examples
are:
• First women SHO
Syeda Ghazala
deputed at Clifton
police station on 8
April, another is
Inspector Zaibun
Nisa
• First War Ready
female Pilot Ayesha
Farooq in the history
of Pakistan

10. WHAT ROLE IS PLAYED BY HRM?

11. It is the responsibility to balances the positions of
man and women at work place by being unbiased to
anyone. In addition considering problems of female
workers seriously, and to provide basic needs to them
at working hours including good transport system
and nurseries

12. • “Family friendly policy” in which they support
continuing employment of women and child care leave,
long term nursing care to there infants are provided
• “The Lives of Office Girls” carried out by the
Government department of social Affairs
• Policy named “Joko” called factory girls
• “Double track personal management”
• “Equal Employment Act policy” etc.

13. RECOMMANDATIONS:
• Country and regional programs dealing with
employment related issues of women is needed
• Building or strengthening positive linkages and
synergies between formal and informal
employment in the formal sector
• Addressing structural barriers of women
employment by rising there voices through media
• Raising awareness among young women workers
about employment opportunities and career
possibilities
• Building up friendly staff environment ,and
confidence level towards any injustice

14. Moving into the formal economy is the key to
economic and social advancement for women in the
informal economy and for their daughters. When we
talk about formal sector, informal sector is treated as
an issue in the context of formal sector.
“So getting more women into the work force is the
cure to many economic ills and imperative to
sustainable development or I can say informal
economy is the problem ,the formal economy is the
solution”