Are Pakistan’s female medical students to be doctors or wives?

[Manticore]

Yup, its rather odd. I know a total of three Pakistani families in Sydney, all three women are supposedly "doctors", two are just homemakers and one works as a clerk in the immigration department

getting residency in a speciality in the same city where the hubby is, is difficult

 

[Dubious]

why not both?

Its impossible to attend social functions as a trophy bahu and work odd hours as a doctor is supposed to

 

[Goenitz]

my significant other is still practising... but something, even 50-50, has to be compromised, either home or profession

 

[Adecypher]

Many families prefer to find well educated girls for their sons. But after marriage want to confine them to home to cook, clean and raise children. I know case where a well educated girl in Pakistan with an MBA, high paying job at multinational bank after the marriage was not allowed to work and not even drive her own car. It is actually the women themselves who are against other younger women. The same Saas-Bahu conflict.

I concur.

 

[Zeeshi]

engineer boy + doctor girl == prefect combo

 

[Roybot]

getting residency in a speciality in the same city where the hubby is, is difficult

That may have more to do with licensure requirements for FMGs.

Ah didn't think of that! Its a shame though, fully qualified doctors just wasting their skill away, especially when there is a severe shortage of medical professionals in rural Australia.

 

[ayesha.a]

why not both?

The title should have read "Are Pakistan's female med students to be doctors or only wives". That's what the author meant.

Of course, a woman can be a doctor and a wife, just as a man can be a doc and a husband (as most male doctors are).

 

[Manticore]

engineer boy + doctor girl == prefect combo

engineers cant understand what the doctor has to go through in student life as well as professional life

trust me.. half of my family is of doctors , other half is of engineers.. even phd engineers from the states told me that they never had to study this much as i had to during my basic degree...

 

[Adecypher]

Son may look like a cockroach smashed by a chappal but the bahu has to look like a super model, cook like the finest chef of France and be a doctor too!

LOL too harsh my friend...but funny...

 

[marbella]

I wanted to comment, but just remembered cristicism faced by afridi. i better stay quite. women doctorwives are just very great and help build nation.

 

[ayesha.a]

Great research !

Meanwhile
50pc of female doctors never work after graduation - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

If true, that is alarming.

 

[Zeeshi]

engineers cant understand what the doctor has to go through in student life as well as professional life

and vice versa engineer's practical/professional life is more difficult then doctors .........mostly engineers are jobless

 

[JonAsad]

what Pakistani women benefit from MBBS?-
a rich burger husband-

 

[Adecypher]

engineers cant understand what the doctor has to go through in student life as well as professional life

Sir I agree, but the reward (financial + prestige) is greater too...right. As far as the chemistry is concerned between the two It differs on case by case basis.

 

[Dubious]

LOL too harsh my friend...but funny...