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    THE CHALLENGES WORKING WOMEN FACE AFTER RETURNING TO THE ORGANIZATION FROM THEIR FIRST MATERNITY LEAVE
    (UMT,Lahore, 2018) SAMEEN BUTT
    Gradually, the number of working women and mothers is increasing globally in all fields of life. Women are participating more actively in work force and they can be seen as employees in every organization these days. The topic of this thesis is The challenges working women face and the organizational support they get after returning to the organization from their first maternity leave. The main purpose of conducting this study was to see as to what kind of difficulties working women face after they return to organization from their first maternity leave. Also the agenda of this study was to investigate if working mothers get any kind of organizational support after their first maternity leave. To explore it, six (6) working women, from different organizations and professions, who have had their first maternity leaves, were in-depth interviewed in Lahore, Pakistan. Resultantly, with respect to the challenges which working women face, the main themes gauged out of the research include work-family balance, family issues, emotional attachment of working mothers to their children and work-life conflict which produces stress in working mothers’ life and routine. Then, there were leg-pulling by colleagues, absence of day care centers at the workplaces, behavioral changes of colleagues also in the list of some difficulties they (participants) faced. Therefore, considering this fact; there is some certain kind of organizational support which working women get from their employers, seniors and colleagues in their respective organizations. With respect to the support received from the organization include sudden and early leaves, flexible working hours and breaks during the day, transport facilities in the organization. Since, some of them were employed in private organizations and some were in governmental organizations, the support they received was varied. The recommendation, limitations and future implications have also been discussed.