This study uses a randomly selected sample of 100 female
employees of telecommunication sector of Rawalpindi-Islamabad
area and tries to analyze whether government policies
and private sector human resource practices exist to promote
favorable environment for female job participation. The
study’s results indicate that female employment-participation
rate estimates at 32.28 percent, suggesting that a little less
than one-third of females get employment in research area
under study. The respondents’ perception on government policy
and private sector organizational HR practices regarding
female job participation are found positive; however, females
still feel the necessity of making their jobs more secured and
their work worthwhile. Econometrically estimated relationship
suggests that female educational levels determine the
female job participation at the first place, and government
policy helps determine the private sector organizational HR
practices and policies, which further affect and encourage the
female job participation. The results suggest that, for a more
effective private sector female participation, the government
policies need to be further strengthened and made substantiated.
For future research, this study provides a base-model
which may be replicated to evaluate public and private sector
roles in determining female job participation of other economic
sectors of Pakistan’s economy.