Identity vs Career: Muslim Women at Cross Cultural Roads in Corporation

Abstract

his paper targets to explore the black box of Muslim women's identity in local corporations inPakistan and figure out its influence on the career trajectory of Muslim women. Scholarship (Syed and Pio, 2010)has already highlighted the issue of the identity of Muslims Women and its impact on career growth in Westerncountries. However, it has never been realized that Muslim women's identity would be an issue in Pakistan.Consistently, this issue is missed out to be focused; this research is going to focus on this missing clue betweenresearch and practice. It reduces the knowledge gap for Pakistan, a country under-represented in the discourseon careers and supports the calls for contextualizing knowledge. Through qualitative research, this paper extendsa rare in-depth insider's insight while exploring the impact of adherence to Muslim identity on women's careers.