Issues and Challenges Faced by Young Pakistani Female Bankers in terms of Gender discrimination, Job Satisfaction and Turn Over Intention

Abstract

The study aims to measure and investigate the issue and challenges faced by young female bankers in terms of gender discrimination. The research examines that how discrimination in banks reduces the employee’s job satisfaction level, trust on organization which ultimately leads to employee intention to quit the organization. The study also investigates the mediating effect of job satisfaction on gender discrimination and employee’s turnover intention. A total set of 237 questionnaires were used for the statistical data requirement. Based on quantitative research approach the data analysis was done by using SPSS and Smart PLS software version 3.0. Bootstrapping was conducted from the collected statistical data, which shows a mediating effect between gender discrimination, employee turnover and job satisfaction. The result shows that 4 out of 5 hypotheses are significantly correlated at p<0.01. In addition, results also indicate that gender discrimination has a significant influence on employee job satisfaction level, turnover intention but trust of employee over organization is not affected.