PAKISTAN BUSINESS REVIEW JULY 2016 Research 468 Discrimination and Career Mobility Research DISCRIMINATION AND CAREER MOBILITY AMONG FEMALE BANK EMPLOYEES Abstract The less representation of women at top managerial level remained an eye catching issue in organizational studies in the recent past. The current study aimed at revisiting the existing relationship between gender discrimination and career mobility in a sample of female bank employees. Furthermore, the influence of social norms, work-family balance and self- efficacy as mediating variables is examined. Data were collected through self-reported questionnaire from female bank employees. Correlation and regression tests were applied using the SPSS. Results indicate that there is a negative link between gender discrimination and female career mobility in banks operating in Pakistan. Keywords: Discrimination, mobility, self-efficacy, societal norms, work family balance JEL Classification: Z 000 Saddam Hussain 1 , M. Imran Mailk 2 , Shabir Hyder 3 , M. Arsalan Khan 4 & Nosheen Anwar 5 1,2,3,4&5- Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Attock, Pakistan. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan: Journal Management System