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  • Dissertation Defended, Dr. Fizza Raza

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fizza Raza who successfully defended her dissertation on July 11th, 2023. Dr. Fizza Raza’s dissertation is titled “Fertility Rates in South Asia and South Asian Diaspora in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?” This is a three-article dissertation in which Dr. Raza focuses on fertility differentials between India, Pakistan, […]

  • Fizza Raza and Dr. Heili Pals

    Sociology Colloquium, 2/3/2021

    Attitudes Towards Wife Beating in Pakistan: Over-Time Comparative Trends by Gender Fizza Raza and Dr. Heili Pals, Texas A&M University According to the Global Gender Gap Index 2020, Pakistan ranks 151 out of 153 countries in terms of general equality. According to the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2012-2013, 42% of women believed that […]