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The issue of gender has been playing a significant role in a wide range of career-related attitudes, behaviours and outcomes including career outcomes, perception from other people, occupational health, work attitudes, career experiences and career choices. The purpose of this study is to investigate how gender has been influencing the career choices of youths in case of Myanmar. In this research paper, a qualitative approach is used. This approach needs to be the design of the choice when a straight forward description of a phenomenon is desired. In this research paper, purposive sampling was used to select 20 informants from Myanmar. The result of the study shows that women are more likely to choose careers like teacher, doctor, nurse, and other careers related to social works while men are offered more various choices of careers in fields such as engineering, IT, business and science. Myanmar women are discouraged to choose careers such as engineering, politics, police and military which are considered male dominated and limited in choice of career compared to men no matter what their interest is. Moreover, men tend to gain higher status and pay than women. Myanmar society needs to develop a more flexible, modern mind-set in the issue of gender and remove the limitations of options and achievements that prevent women to pursue their dream career.