abstract: Under-representation of women doctors in medical work force despite their overwhelming majority in medical schools is an intriguing social issue for Pakistan raising important questions related to evolving gender relations in Pakistani society. Previous research on the broader issue of under-representation of women in science has focused primarily on the structural barriers to women’s advancement. It does not account for the underlying subtle (and changing) gendered power relations that permeate everyday life and which can constrain (or enable) the choices of women. It also does not address how women are not simply constructed as subjects within intersecting power relations, but actively construct meaning in relation to them. It raises interesting questions about the cultural shaping of subjectivities, identities and agency of women within the web of power relations in a society such as Pakistan. To analyze the underlying dynamics of this issue, this dissertation empirically examines the individual, institutional and social factors which enable or affect the career choices of Pakistani women doctors. Based on the ethnographic data obtained from in-depth, person centered, open ended interviews with sixty women doctors and their families, as well as policy makers and the stake holders in medical education and health administration in Lahore, Pakistan this dissertation seeks to address the complex issues of empowerment and agency in the context of Pakistani women, both in individual and collective sense. Participation in medical education is ostensibly an empowering act, but dissecting the social relations in which this decision takes place reveals that becoming a doctor actually enmeshes women further in the disciplinary relations within their families and society. Similarly, the medical workplaces of Pakistan are marked by entrenched gendered hierarchies constraining women’s access to resources and their progression through medical career. Finally, the political implications of defining work in medicine, and devaluing care in capitalist economies is explored. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Anthropology 2017

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:40:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisabete Cardoso Coelho.pdf: 1488350 bytes, checksum: 6e833c513cbc0ddcaf8ba83e1517d22c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research entitled "Gender and Academic Integration: A study focusing on Doctors in Accounting" aimed the mapping of the woman doctor acting in Accounting and assess their academic contribution, through raising their scientific production. As a specific objective intended to verify the productions of doctors in Brazil in scientific journals, congress proceedings, books and other vehicles. Search this study as a research question answer the following question: What is the female scientific production, doctors Accounting object of the search, as academic contribution in terms of guidance, published in Annals, congresses and books? This work is justified by the research and the publicizing of the role and contribution that these women gave to research and teaching of Accounting. As for the research method, was made the choice of quantitative approach with the analysis of data obtained through the Curriculum Lattes of surveyed individuals. It was observed with this thesis that women have gained their place in the scientific community in Accounting and contributing significantly to the development of Accounting Science / Esta pesquisa com o título Gênero e Inserção Acadêmica: Um estudo com ênfase em Doutoras em Contabilidade teve como objetivo principal efetuar o mapeamento da atuação da mulher doutora em Contabilidade e aferir sua contribuição acadêmica, por meio de levantamento de sua produção científica. Como objetivo específico verificou as produções das doutoras no Brasil, em revistas científicas, anais de Congressos, livros e outros veículos. Buscou, este estudo, como questionamento de pesquisa responder a seguinte questão: Qual a produção científica feminina, das doutoras em Contabilidade objeto da pesquisa, como contribuição acadêmica em termos de orientação, publicação em anais, em congressos e livros? Este trabalho se justifica por pesquisar e tornar público a atuação e contribuição que essas mulheres doutoras deram e ainda prestam à pesquisa e ao ensino de Contabilidade. Quanto ao método de pesquisa foi feita a opção pela abordagem quantitativa e pela análise de dados obtidos por meio dos Currículos Lattes dos indivíduos pesquisados. Foi possível verificar com esta dissertação que as mulheres vêm conquistando seu espaço no meio científico em Contabilidade e contribuindo significativamente para o desenvolvimento da Ciência Contábil

This thesis contributes to the historiography of women in medicine by exploring, in-depth, one small specialty, public health, which, from 1974, offered women doctors working within it equality of opportunity with men for career development. At that time, most women doctors working in the English health service were relegated to junior or support roles, their particular needs for family-friendly working environments being largely ignored. This research examines the reasons behind the development of these equal opportunities and the subsequent rapid trajectory of women doctors in public health, comparing it with the much slower progress made by female colleagues in hospital medicine and general practice. In considering the factors helping or hindering women’s advance in medicine from 1974, it proposes that these changes occurred in public health because the specialty was not tied to the pyramidal model of medicine, developed in the 1930s by senior male doctors for male doctors, which dominated other specialties and which stifled progress. An innovative feature of this research, following women’s entry to consultant and training posts in proportions equal to men in public health, is to highlight their subsequent move into major strategic roles within the health service management structure from the late 1980s. Interviews with senior public health men and women doctors help shed light on how this move was achieved and how women in strategic positions were able to combine high profile careers with domestic responsibilities. Also includes five transcipts of interviews : The five interviewees, whose career stories are presented here - Professor Sian Griffiths, Professor Sheila Adam, Professor Mala Rao, Dr Sue Atkinson and Professor Fiona Sim - were selected, with the help of the Faculty of Public Health, for their considerable achievement in strategic leadership roles in public health practice, whether in leading complex organisation, chairing national policy committees, leading international work, promoting education and development.

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