Not all patriarchy system would safeguard feminist affairs. In Pakistan, the patriarchy mentality which was deeply ingrained to their society had caused poor and uneducated women to struggle daily for basic rights, recognitions and respects from others. At Pakistan, women were unlikely to have formal powers and representation in social, economy and politics. This could be seen where most women were expected to continue doing their household works and raising children at home, professional women were treated negatively and paid lesser compared to other professionals, and women were also being misrepresented by the media and popular culture.
In Malaysia, females were still being neglected and discriminated in their social status, also in their
In practice, female workforce would retire at the age of 50 while male workforce would retire at the age of 55, the different of the age is not small but a big five years where there would be issues for single mother to be able to give their children education possibilities in their later life when they retired.
In overall experience of both insufficient wages and low retirement age, women would be at financial crisis in their later life to be unable to sustain their daily life and be burden of their offsprings.
Further, females were also facing sexual harassment at workplace. There is no any written law on the matter but only a practical guideline which was made in 1999, that is the Code of Practice on the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Harassment 1999. However, this practical guideline have no force in any law and serve as a reference for the public in relation to such matters.
In the Employment Act 1955, there were no provision in relation to sexual harassment in workplace despite the number of incidence which are very high. We does not disagree that the Penal Code does provide provision on harassment however it put a very high requirement and burden of proof on the victim to prove to the court in order to establish such offences as it were criminal