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The Juntendo University of Tokyo admits the results of the exams of the women in the rigging: Quartz

In what is beginning to look like a national pattern, another Japanese university admitted to have deliberately harmed the aspirants to the medical school.

Juntendo University, a private university in Tokyo, said yesterday (December 10) that its medical school had unfairly failed (link in Japanese) 165 people who took the entrance exams in 2017 and 2018, an error that mainly affected women but also men who were retaking the test. test. The school said that 48 people who failed for the second time last year, of whom 47 are women, would adjust their scores and be allowed to pass. The remaining 117 people who had failed the first time would be reimbursed for examination fees (link in Japanese).

The university gave two reasons for manipulating the grades compared to the female applications. First, he said that women were more mature compared to their male counterparts and had better communication skills. As a result, they tended to perform better in the interview part of the application process, so they needed to adjust the scores to compensate for the shortcomings of the male applicants. He also said that he did not have enough accommodation for female students of medical students. The president of Juntendo University apologized during a press conference in Tokyo for the incident.

At Juntendo University, the gender gap in acceptance rates is higher in their medical school, according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education.

The findings were revealed as part of a government-ordered investigation in 81 schools across the country for other cases of falsification of exams, after the news was released in August that the Tokyo Medical University had documented the scores for years. of women applicants. The University of Showa in Tokyo was the second school to admit the results of the rigging tests against those who were retaking the entrance exams, as well as the acceptance of non-graduate relatives of former students, but denied that it had discriminated against women. The education ministry had previously said that men (from the payment wall) passed the exams at higher rates (link in Japanese) than women in about 80% of schools that had surveyed.

Japan has the lowest proportion of female doctors among the rich nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which make up only 21% of doctors in the country.

The photo above is credited to Kakidai [CC BY-SA 4.0] from Wikimedia Commons.

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