Tokyo medical school ordered to pay over gender discrimination


The Tokyo skyline at dusk. Juntendo University, a medical school in the city, was today ordered to pay compensation to 13 women for gender discrimination. – EPA pic, May 19, 2022.

A MEDICAL school in Tokyo that made it harder for female students to pass entrance exams was today ordered to pay compensation to 13 women for gender discrimination.

Juntendo University said in 2018 that it had raised the bar for women in the exams in order to “narrow the gap with male students”, as a scandal over medical school admissions uncovered improper practices at several institutions.


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