Workplace Discrimination and Challenges for Women Workers. The purpose of the 2010 Act was to eliminate all forms of discrimination in the workplace, including genderbased discrimination and sexual harassment.As religious minorities, Shias, Hindus, Christians and Sikhs experience discrimination and harassment in employment. Safeguard against discrimination in services. (1). No citizen otherwise qualified for appointment in the service of Pakistan shall be discriminated against in. Disability is the only grounds on which discrimination is specifically prohibited. Discrimination. Undoubtedly, in the pecking order of discrimination against women at the workplace, expectant mothers have it the worst. And behaviors in the work place. Those areas directly affecting women, their pay and gender discrimination in the workplace. A highly patriarchal society, regressive social norms and gender stereotypes give rise to discrimination and violence against women and girls.