Japanese medical school ‘rigged entrance test scores to keep out women’

University official says lowering all female applicants’ marks was ‘necessary evil’

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Japanese media says only 30 women were admitted to the medical school in 2018

A medical school in Japan is under fire for allegedly lowering all female applicants’ exam scores in order to reduce the number of women doctors.

The exam rigging is reported to have been going on since 2010, when the percentage of female candidates admitted to Tokyo Medical University (TMU) began to increase above the 30% ratio desired by university officials, according to The Japan Times.

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