Women to demand compensation over entrance exam rigging

Women who applied unsuccessfully to Japan’s Tokyo Medical University intend to demand compensation from the institution for manipulating entrance exam results in favour of male applicants and hiding the discriminatory practice, their lawyers said last week, reports Kyodo.

A university investigative panel said it had identified 69 people, including at least 55 women, who were rejected due to the university’s systematic alteration of the scores of female applicants and applicants who had failed its entrance exams multiple times in the past. The group of lawyers said over 20 former applicants who took the university’s entrance exam in 2006 and later plan to file a request with the university demanding that it pay JP¥100,000 (US$890) in damages for every year an applicant took its entrance exams, refund exam fees and cover other associated costs such as traveling expenses. They also demanded that the university disclose their exam scores.

Tokyo Medical University admitted in August it had manipulated exam scores for over 10 years to curb female enrolment, which officials claimed was to avoid a shortage of doctors at affiliated hospitals on the grounds that female doctors tend to resign or take long periods of leave after getting married or giving birth.
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