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Pakistan's Growing Human Capital

Here's an AP report on women making up majority of students at Karachi's Dow Medical University:

KARACHI, Pakistan — In a lecture hall of one of Pakistan’s most prestigious medical schools, a handful of male students sits in the far top corner, clearly outnumbered by the rows and rows of female students listening intently to the doctor lecturing about insulin.

In a country better known for honor killings of women and low literacy rates for girls, Pakistan’s medical schools are a reflection of how women’s roles are evolving. Women now make up the vast majority of students studying medicine, a gradual change that’s come about after a quota favoring male admittance into medical school was lifted in 1991.

The trend is a step forward for women in Pakistan, a largely conservative Muslim country. But there remain obstacles. Many women graduates don’t go on to work as doctors, largely because of pressure from family and society to get married and stop working — so much so that there are now concerns over the impact on the country’s health care system.

At Dow Medical College in the southern port city of Karachi, the female students said they are adamant they will work.

Standing in the school’s courtyard as fellow students — almost all of them women — gathered between classes, Ayesha Sultan described why she wants to become a doctor.

“I wanted to serve humanity, and I believe that I was born for this,” said Sultan, who is in her first year. “The women here are really striving hard to get a position, especially in this country where women’s discrimination is to the zenith, so I think that’s why you find a lot of women here.”

For years, a government-imposed quota mandated that 80 percent of the seats at medical schools went to men and 20 percent to women. Then the Supreme Court ruled that the quota was unconstitutional and that admission should be based solely on merit.

Now about 80 to 85 percent of Pakistan’s medical students are women, said Dr. Mirza Ali Azhar, the secretary general of the Pakistan Medical Association. Statistics gathered by The Associated Press show that at medical schools in some deeply conservative areas of the country such as Baluchistan in the southwest and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest, men still outnumber women. But in Punjab and Sindh provinces, which turn out the vast bulk of medical students, the women dominate. At Dow, it is currently about 70 percent women to 30 percent men.

In comparison, about 47 percent of medical students in the U.S. are women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

There are a number of different reasons why men don’t make the cut, say students, faculty and medical officials. Medical school takes too long and is too difficult. Boys have more freedom to leave the house than girls, so they have more distractions. Boys want a career path in business or IT that will make them more money and faster, in part because they need to earn money to raise families.

At Dow, for example, just about all the male graduates work as doctors, but only an estimated half the women do, says Dr. Umar Farooq, the school’s pro-vice chancellor. Nationwide figures on how many women graduates forgo actual practice don’t exist, but despite years of increased women’s enrollment, the gender breakdown of doctors remains lopsided. Of the 132,988 doctors registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, 58,789 are women. The number of female specialists is even smaller: 7,524 out of 28,686....

In Pakistan’s medical schools, women far outnumber the men, pushing back on society pressures - The Washington Post
 
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Here's an excerpt of a World Bank report released recently:

while the extreme poor in SSA (Sub-Saharan Africa) represented only 11 percent of the world’s total in 1981, they now account for more than a third of the world’s extreme poor (figure 3). India contributes another third (up from 22 percent in 1981) and China comes next contributing 13 percent (down from 43 percent in 1981).

http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/State_of_the_poor_paper_April17.pdf
 
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On one hand no doubt it is. but on the other we need to convert it into our asset. our govt isnt serious about it at all. so we are making our population as a liability. we dont have that big economy to provide them with good jobs. our job market is dead. so we need to elect a govt which pay attention towards it, we have Elections on 11 MAY. so vote for IMRAN KHAN AND PTI to ahve a good future not just for yourself but also for your nation...
 
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Ridiculous comparisons... with data from the last century lol

Anyways, India will always outspend Pakistan and will always have the economic edge. Live with it.

India is among the top FDI destinations in the world, which speaks for itself if you want to talk about attractiveness of a countries market, workforce etc etc.
 
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Yes, thank God Pakistan is not like India which is home to the world's largest population of poor, hungry and illiterates who still defecate in the open.

Haq's Musings: 63 Years After Independence, India Remains Home to World's Largest Population of Poor, Hungry and Illiterates

Yes and its not the 10th largest economy by GDP/3rd largest by PPP either. Its not growing with +5 % despite a global recession and virtually no economic reforms for years. Its not a BRICS, G20 member or a top FDI destination on the planet. It does not spend insane amounts (way more than 1 trillion in the next 5 yrs alone) of infrastructure, R&D and poverty reduction measures. It does not lift millions out of poverty each year while literacy is improving even in the most backward areas with 10% per decade..... and it goes on and on.

Dont compare our economy with yours, no need to bring India into this thread kiddo. Even MH alone has a higher GDP....
 
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Both times I checked this thread it had become an insalubrious effort to show each others country as pathetic, weak and low. I think this thread should be locked and cleaned up. @Aeronaut

Haha, this is one hell of a glorious thread indeed! The topic of the thread was "Pakistan's Growing Human Capital" But the Thread-starter is now wandering all over the place talking about India and Indian statistics real or imagined. And finally just trolling himself and his thread so persistently. Now why am I reminded of a goat out on a pasture, chewing here or nibbling there?

Well, that is the ponderable thing about Haqs-Amusings after all.
 
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Growing human capital without any jobs is a disaster. This man is boasting of Pakistan's higher education, well on the other side Pakistan barely produces 50000 engineers per year and their literacy rate is 42%. This is pathetic and falsified data.

Any source? answer is no and its just another example of cheap Indian mentality. In Karachi alone we are currently producing more then five thousand engineers Alhumdullah.
 
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More nonsense.

Why are Indian car sales three times on per capita basis if Pakistan has a bigger middle class.

Same goes for two wheelers and almost any consumer items that middle class uses.

Middle class requires rule of law, not a country where even the army chiefs and presidents run away from courts, protected by hired military men.


Pakistan's per capita income was 66% higher than India in 1990 and is 66% of India in 2012. And he wants to believe their middle class has grown faster during the same period!


he have a reason to beleive Vinod!
he is quoting tables and charts with reference and you are talking about bikes and rikshaws!!!

it is obvious who is having more weight!!

Kindly refrain from flaming stupid posts intended at nothing but derailing the thread!
 
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Pakistan is way better in all respect to India I agree , India should be compared with Nepal and Somalia those are they only countries it can out perform
:omghaha:On basis of what?Literacy rate?Infrastructure?quality of education?
 
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