Why do males of our culture insult women in every profession may that be engineering or medicine or women driver?

I must say Mahreen, this is a very provocative statement/question and many (men at least) would not like to agree to it (which is understandable). It is not going to be easy to answer it, but here is somewhat an attempt:

Q: Why do males of our culture insult women in every profession may that be engineering or medicine or women driver?
A: Partly, I feel, it has to do with the concept of man being the bread-winner. His domain is the so-called outer world, whereas woman's domain is the inner world - the house. She is the care-taker. These two roles have been looked at as two completely separate ones and eventually this led men to believe that they have more control over their house and family than women have. Alone the fact that a woman after her marriage gives birth to a son or a daughter, generates different reactions. Preference of male over female can be observed. These patterns have been there in our society since years and are deeply rooted. Men do not necessarily see women being equal to them (be it physically, intellectually or whatsoever) and this understanding mostly hinders them to see women as serious competitors in that outer domain, which they consider their own territory anyway. It is, that is why, mostly difficult for men to take women seriously in certain matters. Over years, things have changed and now many women too enjoy access to further education and work place. Thus, men's role as the primary bread-winner is disappearing. The more independant women are getting, the insecurer they feel. How does one react in such a situation? Either one is mature enough to realize that whatever one has comes from Allah and noone can snatch away anything from you without Allah's will..., or one tries to pull the other down (e.g. by insulting).
--> Of course, I am generalizing and portraying men in a particular way. Sorry for that! Insult is a huge word and almost requires a definition. Apart from that, women too are not angels.
--> I personally don't think that all men have this problem. I know many who encourage their wives, sisters, etc. in whatever they do and respect them. The fact that we once had a female leading/ruling over Pakistan shows that women too have a position outside home.
--> If men or women do not respect each other, it has to quite some extent to do with their upbringing, which shall not be only about how one is supposed to behave towards one's parents and siblings/relatives, but generally towrads mankind.
--> Oh, and this behaviour (men insulting women at work place) is not Pakistan-specific. It happens everywhere.

Forgive me folks, no intention to offend anyone here.

Its true that women have to work harder in order to get something, but in most cases they are admired and not insulted. Actually, some of our males find it hard to swallow that women can come up to their level or even higher than them, so they start showing disrespect to them. It is basically because they think they are superior to women in every respect and could not accept the fact that they(women) can have a brain just like them or better than them.
But its only a behavior of cowards, not of gentlemen!

With all the respect to the male jawabians here :)

Well I dun really know abt Pakistan (though I have heard a lot that how hard it is for females to work there) but I differ where u pointed out "our culture" I think it happens everywhere. One of the ladies I know here (jeddah) she has to leave her job bcoz she couldn't "co operate" with her boss. U have no idea how ladies are being treated here. So it's not just in Pakistani culture, rather I would say it depends on the men's mentality, and I think it's not only at work places, women have to face it in all aspects of life.
are men Insecure? might be, men are very egoistic, especially in our society that they don't like women to come up at their level or it cud be their sense of being powerful ? This is how men are been brought up, they have all right to dominate their ladies so it could be frustration that come out as such judgmental comments?
The point that u wrote, they respect their moms but not the other women of the society, I would love to see what the males have to say here, but thankfully We still have that in our culture, the respecting mom thing, Bcoz I have seen/heard really bad people, so I would say the males of our society are still better than others.

the problem with Pakistani ppl (including myself) is we dont like to work and use cards to get by with ... We all have different sympathy cards like Balochi cards, women cards, sindhi cards, ghareeb cards, etc ... women who are professional in their attitude rarely happen to complaint this.
What mostly happens in our workplaces is that some ladies alienate themselves from the rest which causes problems for all .... In fact at our workplaces thr are more facilities to women for example thr is no return time for a guy but girl can leave at 5 no matter how much work ... Etc etc thr r many ....
Nevertheless i cannot deny the problems of women at workplaces but in my opinion a highly professional attitude on equal basis could be a solution .... And never alienate yourself with the rest ......

I don't think so...
You can't fetch the result out of a pressure group. There are some rotten eggs in every society but as a Muslim, i have analyzed a greater respect for women in my society. And a much more related point is the character, behavior, attitude and personality of that particular girl or woman. Whatever she is doing in our society, if she knows how to straighten the things messed up, she is respectable and would be respected anywhere. I do remember the things of my student life and now in professional period, when we prefer girls by saying "Ladies 1st"
Whatever a girl is, she is always respectable, superior and esteemed as a mother, daughter, sister and wife and Men are meant to be the shield for their moral support not to disgrace, dishonor or humiliate her.
Do follow this ayat, and you will find your status as Allah promised.
“AEY PAYGHAMBAR, APNI BIWIYON AUR APNI BETIYON AUR MUSALMAANON KI AURATON KO KEH DO KE APNE PAR CHAADAR LATKA LIYA KAREN. YE HUKM IN KE LIYE SHANAAKHAT KE LIYE HOGA, TO KOI IN KO EEZA NA DEGA. AUR ALLAH BAKHSHNE WALA MHERBAN HAI" (Surah al Ahzab, Ayat 59)

Hey I don't totally agree with this question.Its not only in Pakistan, I honestly think that Pakistani males (majority) respects female employees more than in other cultures. And if some are degrading you then fault is partially yours. If you keep your attitude and don't let any men to comment on you then they will stop doing it. See if a male is insulting you then why cant you insult them back? You don't have to be good with those who are not good with you. So believe in yourself and don't get offended by their comments. Stay calm and answer their comments without thinking that they are superior to you, because they are not. You cant change their mentality so leave the rest and don't think about these things.

the thing i hate about feminists... "They generalize".. and they forget the man standing up for them in a crowded bus to give her a seat. i am from peshawar and this actually happens. in a long que, when a women arrives, all the male respectfully let her go to the front. i know this doesnt happen everywhere. but the thing youre talking about, that too doesnt happen everywhere. Why do I have to be ashamed of something i dont do. Why fingers are being pointed at me for things i dont do. why are you unknowingly trying to make me feel that it was wrong for me to be born a Male.
i am at a hotel in vienna right now. and there are women in the lobby who have come from all around the world for the conference "women beyond borders", i just heard a nigerian lady say that all men are bastards... after i finish this writing, i will have my take on her.. i think i should start with her (bastard) father, someone whom she didnt mention in her sad story and thus she probably still loves him. wish me luck.. time to do some "taking".

PS: it doesnt have to be a male vs female thingy... i love my females. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Being a man, the first thing that I would like to say after reading the majority of the comments above is OUCH!

I would only like to add that there shouldn't be any kind of discrepency between how a man and a woman is treated at the work place. That just gives some other people the wrong idea, by some other people I mean the covert perverts looking for action in the name of affirmative action.

It has been a long debate here already but I think this is now just a myth and people now should think realistically rather than throwing this question.
This myth might used to be true but is not true any more. If you are working in a good company with professional culture, there is no such problem.

This has more to do with illiteracy and/or how someone was brought up than merely being a Pakistani man. BTW the question is kinda absurd, insult has some other meaning, may be you meant "undermine the capabilities of", but that would rather be due to professional reasons I guess, as in competition, and well its vice versa.
Most of the literate people across the world take the other person for a person and not a man or woman. I see people complaining about this kinda stuff but as from my experience, there's hardly an example that I can quote of any such misbehavior.
Women need to be more confident sometimes, coz men as we know it are used to going out and working and perhaps women sometimes misunderstand or misinterpret a situation and think that it was meant to harass them when actually thats exactly something someone did and does to make sure she was being treated as just another person at work and not more or less than that.
Lastly, Women are thinkers, they are always thinking about all possible and even impossible angles/outcomes of an incident and sometimes they just sweat themselves unnecessarily over petty or even non-issues.