55 International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences Vol. 10, No.1, January 2020, pp. 55–70 E-ISSN: 2225-8329, P-ISSN: 2308-0337 © 2020 HRMARS www.hrmars.com To cite this article: Dad, A., Karim, A.M., Devi, R. (2020). Women Empowerment in the Textile Factories: Study on Punjab Province, Pakistan, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences 10 (1): 55-70 http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARAFMS/v10-i1/6992 (DOI: 10.6007/IJARAFMS/v10-i1/6992) Women Empowerment in the Textile Factories: Study on Punjab Province, Pakistan Allah Dad 1 , Asif Mahbub Karim 2 , Rohini Devi 3 1 Assistant Professor, Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, 2 Dean, BGS, Binary University, Malaysia, 2 E-mail: drasifmkarim@gmail.com (Corresponding author) 3 Deputy VC, Binary University, Malaysia Abstract The Textile Industry of Pakistan is considered as the lifeline of the country's economy. It accounts for the nearly 55% share of the total economy. Major exports from textiles are yarns, raw and finished fabrics and also a limited quantity of value-added textile items. The role of employees always considered as key parameter in obtaining performance. But involvement of women on job place is very less in Pakistan textile industry. Only garment sector containing majorly women employment. The issues regarding their workplace is needed to be identified about their workplace satisfaction and finds out reason why women are not involved on job place in textile industry on large scale. In this research paper a survey will be conducted and concluded about issues of involvement on job place in two cluster region of textile factories i-e Lahore and Faisalabad. Key words Women Empowerment, Textile Factory, Employment, Engendering Wages Received: 08 Feb 2020 © The Authors 2020 Revised: 18 Feb 2020 Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com) This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Accepted: 26 Feb 2020 Published Online: 10 Mar 2020 1. Introduction The textile industry has a noteworthy position in the business arrangement of Pakistan, as it caters an important need of human beings, namely, clothing. The total worth of textile goods around the globe stood $667.5 billion in 2015 in which about 83.1% were fabrics and 16.9% were yarns, higher 1.5% as compared to the previous year discussed in World Bank Report of 2016. Therefore it has been estimated that in the year 2020 the worldwide market worth of textile organization will be $842.6 billion which is an enormous increase of 26.2% since 2015(Sheng-Lu 2017). The composite yearly development amount of the market was 4.4% amongst 2011–15. Whereas the market place of Textile factories from Asia-Pacific Land considered for 54.6% of the worldwide worth in 2015 and Europe considered aimed at an additional 20.6% of the marketplace. The composite yearly growing amount of the market in the period 2015–20 is projected to be 4.8%. The demand to remain in textile business always been important due to expansion every year. Depletion of apparel is more income and price reactive than food, for instance, the Worldwide cross- sectional investigation has shown apparel spending has an earnings springiness of about 0.9 while food has an earnings springiness of 0.1 to 0.3 in strong economic countries (Seale et al., 2003). The textiles business might exactly name the flying buttress of Pakistan's economy for the subsequent 3 explanations. Primary, its retrograde connection with the agrarian segment in the form of raw material, the lifeline of Pakistan's economy. Second, yarns and fabric built-up are the main industrial