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    The phenomenon of pay gap and gender equality.
    (UMT Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Yasir Iqbal
    The aim of this study is to explore the context of gender pay gap, its different concept and methods, related facts, and in particular focus on the legal landscape of Pakistan; its international obligations, constitutional and legal responsibilities towards gender parity that play a direct or indirect role in gender pay gap. The thesis further explores explained and unexplained factors behind the gender pay gap from different disciplines such as economics, statistics, sociology and perspectives like management, feminism. Moreover, we conducted a questionnaire and interview based survey with faculty and human resource department to gain an insight about their perspective whether misogyny plays any role in gender pay gap, we used their livid experiences, perceptions, opinions and awareness as foundation theory to drive at the main question about misogyny, which the participants found to be a minor cause, whereas majority agreed to widespread existence of gender discrimination, irrespective of their personal experiences being different. Similarly, to validate our query we also cross-examined the human resource department, and we found stereotypes such as undervaluation as when negotiating salary at job interview, it's a woman's own choice if she agrees to less than her productive value. Also a typical stereotype that it's a man's job, such as technical jobs of accounts and finance, we were told that it is where we have 'male-preference' because they tend to do a better at it, which is not conclusive evidence of gender bias but further inquiry in the subject may lead to existence of more problematic motives that do cause gender pay gap in education industry. In the end of the thesis we have listed down recommendations for governments, regulatory bodies, unions, organizations, employees and NGOs.