Does Gender Discrimination affect the Employees’ Performance and Satisfaction in Healthcare Sector of Pakistan?

Abstract

Gender discrimination is considered as the most negative attribute an organization in every field. A lot of research has been pertaining to outcomes of gender discrimination at workplace in different fields but the medical sector of Pakistan is not covered in depth up till now in this regards. Though, the common jargon for medical field is “female dominant field” in Pakistan but the prominent gap has been observed between the female medical students and the female doctors.  The medical field is reliably one of the most outstanding fields to enter due to the positive work status and significant pay. This may not be valid for female employees, in any case, the enormous measure of gender inequality and sexual abuse might be sufficient to get women distant from the medical jobs. The main objective of this research paper is to evaluate the mediating effect of Empowerment and Harassment on employees’ performance and satisfaction assisted by gender discrimination, wage gaps, career growth opportunities, work load and work-life balance policies. The sample of 270 medical worker was collected from different hospitals of Karachi including giant ones as well.  Addition to this, the model fitness was tested by assessment carried out using the Smart PLS 3.0 software. The outcomes of the tests confirmed that the gender discrimination (independent variable) does significantly affect job performance (dependent variable 1) and job satisfaction (dependent variable 2). The study also revealed that the mediating effect of Harassment (mediator 1) and Empowerment (mediator 2) also exists between independent and dependent variables of the study. The outcome of this study is essential for the hospital management to dig into the streamlines of healthy work environment for their employees especially for females. This will aid the management to device strategies to minimize gender discrimination and provide equal opportunities for each gender.