A Top Medical University in Japan Has Been Lowering Women's Test Scores For Years: Reports

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Gizmodo


By Melanie Ehrenkranz on 03 Aug 2018 at 3:00PM

A leading medical university in Japan wanted more male students—so it’s reportedly been lowering the entrance exam scores of female applicants for years.

The school, Tokyo Medical University, has been “systematically” reducing all female applicants’ scores by 10 to 20 per cent since around 2010, according to the Asahi Shimbun.

“Many female students who graduate end up leaving the actual medical practice to give birth and raise children,” a source told the Asahi Shimbun, describing the motivation behind lowering women’s applicant scores. “There was a silent understanding,” the source said, that lowering the scores of female applicants, thus boosting the number of accepted male applicants, would be “one way to resolve the doctor shortage.”

A university official characterised the score alterations as a “necessary evil” and a “silent consent,” according to the Yomiuri Shimbun. The source also said that there was a widely held belief in the surgical department that “it takes three women to serve as one man.”

Read more: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/08/a-top-medical-university-in-japan-has-been-lowering-womens-test-scores-for-years-reports/

[Farmer-Rick]

1. They probably do it here in the US too

It's just that they haven't been caught yet.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. Actually, US medical schools have slightly more female students than male

It'd been about 50/50 for 15 years, but in 2017, female med students slightly edged out men. At some medical schools, there are far more female than male students.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/women-are-now-a-majority-of-entering-medical-students-nationwide/2018/01/22/b2eb00e8-f22e-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?utm_term=.0cb54d395e19

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Yes, Go Women!

[Nitram]

5. It is a practice at most, if not all, American universities and grad schools.

I was taking off the record to an admissions officer at the University of Virginia, and he said it is widely practiced to "keep a balance" between the numbers of men and women admitted. If they didn't, men would be a distinct minority at most universities, colleges, and grad schools.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Oh........

[weissmam]

2. I smell one hell of a lawsuit

[betsuni]

4. The chairman and president of the university who resigned are 77 and 69 years old.

Easy to imagine their opinion of women as inferiors whose role in society is being good wives and wise mothers. Bullshit that many female students go through the trouble and expense of medical school only to quit and be housewives. If they leave the medical profession it's because they can't get good job opportunities, don't get promoted, conditions are bad and it all becomes too stressful.

And this wouldn't have been discovered if the university wasn't being investigated for bribery, admitting some idiot son of a rich guy. The usual.