• Taiba Karimi
• Dr. Zainab Farhat

This study is an effort to reveal the challenges that are faced by the women of Afghanistan at workplace the sample size of 150 women working in different organizations of the Kabul city. Women working in banks, educational institutions were selected to be part of the sample. It is important to mention that there are a greater number of women working in educational institutions in comparison to banks in Afghanistan. It is advisable to select more proportion of sample from educational institutions than from banks in Afghanistan. Therefore, the present study selected 100 women working in educational institutions and 50 women working in banks, the findings indicates that the following are the major challenges that women suffer in the workplace from it. A majority of the respondents (54 %) were in the age group of 30-40 years. It means that young women are joining the workforce in Afghanistan. Very few numbers of women above 50 years age (5.33 %) were found to be working in Afghanistan. This finding showed that limited number of women above the age of 50 years is in jobs. A sizeable proportion of women (27.33%) were found to be in the age group between 40-50 years; whereas only 13.33 % women were below 30 years. A majority of the respondents (61 %) were having the work experience of 2-5 years, followed by 28.66% women who were having work experience less than 2 years. It means that a greater number of young women are joining the workforce in Afghanistan; therefore, they have less work experience. Maximum number of the respondents (42 %) was getting less than AFN 20,000 per month; followed by 39% women who were getting AFN 20,001 -30,000 as their monthly salary. These findings indicated that women are not getting adequate salary in Afghanistan because over 40 percent of the working women were found to be earning less than AFN 20,000 per month that seems too insufficient for meeting daily requirements of an average family in Afghanistan.

Women, Afghanistan, Empowerment, Workplace.

"CHALLENGES OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE: A STUDY OF KABUL PROVINCE OF AFGHANISTAN ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 2, page no.1895-1902, February-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2102229.pdf

"CHALLENGES OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE: A STUDY OF KABUL PROVINCE OF AFGHANISTAN ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 2, page no. pp1895-1902, February-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2102229.pdf