Challenges and barriers faced by Malaysian women in their career progression

The purpose of this research is to examine the challenges and barriers faced by Malaysian Women in their career progression. There were number of research done previously and found there are relationship between gender discrimination, education, family commitment and job-related experience are the barriers for Malaysian women. There were limited studies on work life balance. Moreover, currently Malaysian government targeting by year 2020 there should be at least 59% women to present in each organization. Hence this title was chosen to enlighten the future researchers on this topic. The questionnaire was distributed via social media for this research purpose. There were 545 responds received from Malaysian working women. Upon the data collection SPSS tool was choosing to analyse the collected data. The data analyse the reliability, correlation and regression analyses towards work life balance, education level, gender diversity and finally on family commitment. As a result, for the research it confirmed Malaysian Women have challenges and barrier in career progression due to work life balance and gender diversity