Tokyo medical school 'changed test scores to keep women out'

University allegedly accepts fewer female students owing to concerns they quit sooner A Japanese medical university has systematically discriminated against female applicants because women tend to quit as doctors after starting families, media reports have alleged. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said Tokyo Medical University had manipulated the entrance exam results of women since about 2011 to keep the female student population low. Quoting unidentified sources, it said the manipulation started after the proportion of successful applicants who were women reached 38% in 2010. Continue reading... source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/02/tokyo-medical-school-changed-test-scores-to-keep-women-out #Headlines by: Associated Press in Tokyo

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