Originally Posted by Unregistered

This point is a red herring. Male-only NS obligation is already inherently unfair to singaporean men. But this arises from a national defence policy reason and is an immutable fact that we cannot argue against. Anyway that is a whole different topic.

We are talking about the current status quo which disadvantages male Singaporean doctors against foreign doctors for consultant posts. There's no policy reason to preserve the status quo disadvantage when Singapore males have done a valuable service for the nation.