Tokyo
Medical University Sexism
It was
brought to light this year that Tokyo Medical School had been changing entrance
exam scores in a deliberate effort to reduce the ratio of female to male
students in their university. This is one of Japan’s most prestigious medical
schools and according to findings the school has been altering test results for
more than a decade since 2006.
The
investigation discovered that the school reduced the scores of female
applicants in the first-stage exam by 20% and then increased male scores, with
the exception of those who had failed the test at least four times, by at least
20 points. This kind of outright discrimination has been going on for years and
it is unclear how many women have been affected by these actions.
The roots
of this issue lies with the profound sexism found in the admissions board of
the university which stated that they wanted fewer female doctors since they
anticipated that women would shorten or end their careers after having children.
Women who
failed to gain admission to the university are now demanding that the school
pay a total of $68,600 dollars in compensation. These 24 women are demanding
the university pay a 100,000 yen in damages for each year the applicant took
the entrance exam. The women claim that they would have not applied to this
university if they had known that they would have faced such illegal exam score
altering as female applicants.
The
university in order to prevent a drop in the level of applications plans to
reduce its academic fees for the medical faculty by $10 million to about $19.8.
This brings it down to the second lowest fees for a private medical institution
in the country.
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