The alterations were uncovered in an internal investigation regarding the entrance exam for Tokyo Medical University, sparking protests and widespread anger. They also concluded that scores were manipulated to give men more points than women and thus hold down the number of women admitted. The investigation showed the scores of men — including those reappearing after failing once or twice — were raised a certain number of points. Those of all women, and men who had failed the test at least three times, were not, however. No immediate comment was available from the government or the education ministry official who figures in the case. To now hear that even our skills are suppressed makes me shake with rage. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
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These are the core obsessions that drive our newsroom—defining topics of seismic importance to the global economy. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. Last year, news that a Tokyo university had for over a decade doctored the test scores of female applicants so they could admit more men sent shockwaves through Japan and around the world. Now the rigging has stopped, women are doing better than men. Tokyo Medical University had for years condoned the rigging of test scores as officials believed that once women got married and had children they would be unable to fulfill their emergency shifts at hospitals. For the school year, In , the acceptance rate for women was 2. The school explained that the huge jump in acceptance levels for both genders was because of wider exam reforms implemented after the school appointed its first-ever female president paywall in November. The Asahi Shimbun paper, citing its own survey of medical school entrance exam results, said the share of women who passed was 4.
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A scandal at a medical university in Tokyo, which for years deducted points from the entrance exams of female applicants, has led many aspiring female doctors to utter "I knew it. She was speaking after Tokyo Medical University admitted Tuesday it had blatantly discriminated against female applicants for years. Tokyo med univ. A report into the university's enrollment policy released that day by a group of lawyers said the medical school did so because female physicians, "as they get older, engage in decreased activities as doctors.
Another leading Japanese paper, The Asahi Simbun , claimed university officials began deliberately altering results back in , when 40 per cent of successful applicants were women. According to university insiders with knowledge of the scheme, the doctoring of tests was carefully planned — a specific coefficient was used to artificially lower the scores of all women applying to the institution. Japanese citizens reacted with outrage on social media at the allegations of rigged exam results. Tokyo Medical University spokesman Fumio Azuma said an internal enquiry about the test scores was already under way following previous allegations of bribery involving the medical school. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
