Gender Based Wage Discrimination and Its Impact on
Performance of Blue Collar Workers: Evidence from
Pakistan
Syed Mohammad Naqi Abbas
Shaikh Asim Athar
Gobind Herani
Abstract
The main aim of this study was to: (i) analyze the
effects of wage discrimination in gender among blue
collar workers in manufacturing organizations, and
specific objectives were to (i) identify that gender
discrimination plays a vital role in employees’ pay
dissatisfaction (ii) analyze whether or not a
significant difference between women’s and men’s pay do
effect their productivity. Gender plays vital role in
determining wage rate especially when there level of job
is lower. Literature reviews revealed that majority of
manufacturing organizations do discriminate among gender
at the time of distribution on even setting the wage
rates of different gender. For getting responses of
these queries, a closed ended questionnaire was used to
find out the employee’s responses about the gender
discrimination and its impact on the performance of
blue-collar workers. This study reveals that
manufacturing organizations do discriminate among gender
at the time of distribution on even setting the wage
rates of different gender. It recommended to all
organizations whether services or manufacturing concern
that the better working environment with no
discrimination consequently increases the productivity
of the employees as well as of an organization.
JEL. Classification:
D02;D31;D33;I31;J01;J15;J16;J18;J31;J33;
Keywords: Gender Discrimination, Manufacturing Organizations, Wages, Blue-Collar
