Report on Abstract of The Effect of Gender Bias on Female Promotions in the Saudi Industrial Sector

The research is providing a brief analysis of the effects of gender bias on the promotion of females as well as how women are not given gender equality rights, including what problems they are now facing in Saudi Arabia. For the sake of this purpose, a methodology as well as analysis is also provided in this reports which is telling that how the women can be promoted in the industries as well as what the previous studies told about the effects and some recommendations are also available which are telling that how women can be promoted and why they should they should be.WomenParticipationinorganizationalmatters, GenderBias, CulturalStereotype are predators or constant variables in this study and women promotion is dependent variable. However, gender bias is independent variable in this context. The data collection method was in the shape of small parts as well as primary sources were used for collecting the significant data by making as well as distributing the questionnaires. Furthermore, the collection of data was a difficult task. For this, the sampling design for the collection of the data consists of 211 employees of the top five companies in KSA. After collection of the data, the analysis was performed on that data by using the quantitative research as well as the qualitative research approaches that are employed for the analysis of the data on such kind of research. The results of this research shows that the women's labor force of KSA was the lowest at 18% worldwide in 2012 ahead of only Iran and Afghanistan.

The results of the current study help to determine the association of the study variables. The correlation of gender bias (dependent variable) with cultural stereotypes, women participation, and female promotion is positive. It means that gender bias and cultural stereotypes positively correlate with each other and the correlation between variables is 0.219 that is significant at 1 percent. Furthermore, gender bias and women participation positively correlate with each other, and the correlation between variables is 0.194 that is significant at 1 percent. In addition, gender bias and female promotion positively correlate with each other, and the correlation between variables is 0.34. The highest correlation is observed between gender bias and cultural stereotypes.