The research on “the effects of the gender bias on the female
promotions in the Saudi Arabian industrial sector,” is providing the major
responsibilities. The diversity of gender within the management responsibilities,
as well as the leadership, play the basic roles. KSA has experienced rapid
growth in the very recent years at the time of being the twentieth largest
economy of the world. The female labor of Saudi Arabia lies at a very low rate
of around 18% throughout Afghanistan, as well as Iran. Furthermore, the study
also shows that almost three hundred seventy thousand women were employed in
KSA within or during the year of 2012 in different departments such as
healthcare, administration, education as well as within the private sectors but
the private sector did hire almost two hundred and sixteen thousand women.
The main problem
statement is showing that participation is also showing the 20.1 percent while
the representation of the population of the age of work was only 18 percent.
The problem of Saudi women they are facing there is mentioned. Saudi women face
many limitations to realizing their
social, economic, and legal capability,
which comprises related limitations as well as regulation on inheritance rights,
unequal properly, access to finance, and
travel. To resolve the issue, the study is conducted which has several
objectives such as the examination of the relationship among the promotion of
women as well as the gender bias in KSA, development or provision of some kind
of recommendation for the reduction of promotion bias by the differences in
genders within the industrial sector of KSA and more. The research questions
are rising some interesting topics about how effective the women's promotion
will be, as well as the relations that will be helpful or not in the industrial
sector of KSA.
The study on this topic is very important because it is trying to
explore the relationship between women's promotion as well as gender bias in
KSA due to inequality. A brief literature review is also conducted which send a
chapter of this study, which is telling a lot about the relationships of gender
inequality as well as telling about the relationships among the gender bias and
the female promotion.
In chapter three, the important methodology, as well as the data,
is discussed in the chapter. The model which is proposed for working and
resolving such kind of issue in this research provides an equation of the
linear regression model which is Y = a + b X where Y and X both are independent
variables, b show the slope of line while the variable a is representing the
intercept (intercepts refers to the value of dependent variable when
independent variable is 0).
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 250 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 which are
employed for the analysis of the data on such kind of research. For the
statistical analysis, SPSS is used for such analysis to calculate the
regression, distribution of the frequency as well as the correlation analysis.
The fourth chapter is providing an explanation of the analysis of the data, which
is collected by finding as well as the analysis of both types of statistics.
5.1. Recommendations of The Effect of Gender Bias
on Female Promotions in the Saudi Industrial Sector
Some recommendation is also given here for resolving such kind of
issue. It is very important because this is the era of advancements, as well as
many women, are interested in working in the market as men work as well as
hardworking in particular fields. In some departments, especially, the
healthcare industry requires females to work in because, in KSA, many women do
not want or cannot take the medical services because they cannot provide
healthcare services from males. The healthcare departments should have to
provide the security as well as the facilities to women to make them stronger
because, in case of any mishap in healthcare, there is no special facility
there to protect them. According to the aspects of social responsibility, the
government, as well as any individual, should have to provide them
facilitations, and they should have to give them respect as they do for men.
For this purpose, the government should have to conduct women empowerment
seminars as well as some departments for social security should be established,
which will only provide the services, as well as they, will work for the rights
of women.
Conclusion of The
Effect of Gender Bias on Female Promotions in the Saudi Industrial Sector
In a nutshell, a key role is being
played by gender diversity in leadership and management roles. An
increment in female mobility increases
the employment rate, labor mobility, and participation of the labor force. The women's labor force of KSA was
the lowest at 18% worldwide in 2012 ahead of only Iran and Afghanistan. Based
on the Institutional Theory the research can be done gender bias on the
promotional issues in the Saudi industrial sector. In Saudi females, human capital is being wasted without any use. Saudi women have the lowest LFPR or
labor force participation rate which reaches just about 22.6%. This research
has examined the major factors that lead to gender bias in female promotion in
the industrial sector of Saudi Arabia.
Although the empowerment of women is increased by economic development, their
empowering also brings about changes in decision making, choices that seem to
have a positive and direct effect. “Women leaders in KSA” is all about
recognizing the achievers in Saudi women while encouraging maximum
participation of females in all projects of development across KSA.
In addition, this research has explored the relationship between gender bias and female promotion in the Saudi
industrial sector because the researches have shown gender inequality exists in
Saudi Arabia. The nature of research is empirical in the sense that it is based
on the feedback and responses of the employees from different Saudi companies.
This research is based on both qualitative and quantitative research
approaches, and data is partly obtained from a primary source, i.e.
questionnaire distributed to the respondents. While the qualitative data, this
research is obtained from the secondary sources, i.e. scholarly journals, news
articles, books, available topic-related documents, and other related
materials. The data is collected from 211 employees of Saudi industrial sector,
i.e. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Telecom Co (STC), Al
Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation, National Commercial Bank, and Samba
Financial Group.
Furthermore, the Pearson correlation test is applied to determine
the correlation between variables. The correlation of gender bias (dependent
variable) with cultural stereotypes, women participation, and female promotion
is positive. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) is used for
quantitative aspects such as frequency distribution, correlation analysis. A
total of 211 people responded to the survey, out of which 140 participants were
females making 66 percent of total respondents, and 71 participants were male.
Research, which has been considered as the main pillar of
knowledge, must be conducted in a proper manner in which the researches
properly understand and apply all of the standards in research ethics. In fact,
the researches need to acknowledge the importance of research ethics before
they would conduct any type of research. In addition to this, the researchers
also should able to tackle some ethical issues in research such as study
designs along with ethics sanction, data analysis, authorship, the conflicts of
interest, as well as the plagiarism and terminated publication. In brief, it is
definitely the responsibility of the researcher to make sure that research that
he or she conducted is performed reliably and ethically right from the planning
stage to the final publication of research.
The social responsibility in the research described how the
researchers have to take both morally and socially relevant implementations as
their responsibility more than only a simple task. In fact, a thing to be noted
by all the researchers is that social responsibility also could be applied as a
criticism, in which the researchers have been considered to become socially
responsible for all of the negative results of the research that they have
conducted and publi