Journal of International Academic Research (2011) Vol.11, No.2. 31 August 2011 Obstacles faced by Females in pursuing their jobs in Pakistan Muhammad Jawad Khan, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering & Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta. Zaheer Khan Kakar, M.Phil Fellow, Department of Economics, National University of Modern Languages(NUML), Islamabad. Zafar Ullah, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta. Abstract This study is conducted in order to figure out the main problems faced by females while pursuing their jobs in Pakistan. A set of 100 female respondents were selected randomly via purposive sampling technique as a sample subject. All of them are graduates. This study states many factors which create hurdles for females, but the male’s attitude towards the female is the main problem creating hurdles for females in pursuing their professional career. Other findings indicates that most of the females are willing to do job related to their field of education and most of them want to join education sector as a teacher. Key Words: Attitude, Culture, Religion, females, education, job. 1. Introduction This research is conducted to point out the problems faced by women in pursuing their jobs. This research shed light on such skill full females of Pakistan, who earn their graduate degrees in well established fields of Science/Arts from well renowned Universities of Pakistan, but soon after getting the degree they get married and they never serve Pakistan, even if they remain single, their family did not allow them to do job or some times they voluntarily choose not to do job. Eventually Pakistan looses her future female doctors, female businessmen, female economist etc. All these females can add so much to the GDP of Pakistan, because as we know females consist of almost 5 0 % of Pakistan’s total population, so if this 50% proportion of Pakistan’s population is left marginalised it will surly give a huge shock to the GDP of Pakistan, and Pakistan will not be able to achieve its natural level of GDP. We have categorised this problem as Under Utilisation of Female capital in Pakistan. There exist many aspects of this issue like the education system of Pakistan, poverty etc. but the main goal of this research s t u d y is to point out all the main forces that are creating hurdles for qualified females in pursuing their professional careers. If we look into the history of Pakistan, Pakistan came into existence on 14 August 1947. Pakistan is located in Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north with having the area of 803,940 sq km. Pakistan’s population is 165,803,560 with the growth rate Obstacles faced by Females in pursuing their jobs in Pakistan 52