Challenges are anything that prevents future movements from developing or making any progress or any incidents and conditions that make the career development difficult to move forward. This study focuses on the previous researches which investigate job challenges with the goal to gain more understanding about the issues or factors that restrained the career women from developing their career and instead chose to stop working. There are hundreds of past studies that can be chose to make a comparative result. Comparative Research Method had been used to analyse the data. The result of this comparative analysis between various past studies regarding career women and female engineers, the researchers found that there are 14 elements that became a conflict or challenges for women to keep working after marriage, which is leadership, gender discrimination, sexual harassment, work-life balance conflict (working-family), child care, safety, support, health, work environment, communication, salary, transportation, leaves, and women mentor. However, there are only three (3) elements that strongly influence women engineers to stop working after marriage, namely gender discrimination, child care, and work-life balance conflict. The results of this study can be used as guidelines in helping new researcher to further develop and broaden the research regarding women. This study also discussed suggestions for future studies to increase women workforce in various industries and this study also suitable to be used as a review study.
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