Gender Quota

“Women doctors stay in the medical practice and contribute significantly at all levels of health profession. Therefore there is no justification for the quota that unjustly restricts the entry of deserving women into the medical degree course in Singapore. We call for the immediate abolishment of this inequitable practice.”

The motion above was passed by the House at the “Women in Healthcare Symposium” organised by the AWDS on August 19 2000 at the KKH Auditorium which was attended by the DMS, MOHThe symposium presented the results of an earlier survey conducted by AWDS asking them about their levels of satisfaction, career decisions and reasons for leaving medicine and general feedback.

The AWDS pursued the results of the survey and presented the issue of gender inequity to Parliament and this resulted in the eventual abolishment of the gender quota implemented on female entrants to the medical faculty in NUS in the year 2002.

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