SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF WORKING WOMEN'S EARNINGS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Abstract

1 2 3  Muhammad Afzal and Muhammad Tariq
ABSTRACT
The current study examines the role of socio-economic factors in determining working women's
earnings, working in public and private sector organizations in ten selected districts of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For this purpose, primary data has been collected from 789 respondents
through a well-structured questionnaire women's working in different organizations of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa during November-December 2017. The study used two stage sampling technique for
the selection of the respondents. Ordinary least squares method has been used for the estimation of the
results. The results show that education, experience, place of job, family income, residential area and
male preference over female have a positive and significant impact on women earnings. Whereas,
dependency on male members of the family, access to health facilities and family sufferings from the
job of female workers showed a significant negative impact on working women's earnings. These
findings suggest that working women's earnings are largely dependent on socio economic factors in
public and private organizations of the province