Tokyo Medical University Intentionally Lowerd Female Exam Scores

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Tokyo Medical University 'changed female exam scores' - bbc.com

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A scandal of Tokyo Medical University was recently revealed that they had intentionally lowered the female exam scores at their entrance exams for years, for securing more male students.

This is one example of gender inequality that men are thought as more effective labour force than women, since women potentially give birth, quit job then become housewives. With such inequality, having a difficulty to enter the college, we can imagine about their situations in getting jobs...

Another obstacle for Japanese women, especially for working mom, is insufficient infrastructure. Capacity of the child care in many urban area is far smaller than the child population. This causes numbers of capable mothers to quit their jobs and be housewives. On the other side, the Japanese medical industry has been afflicted with the shortage of human resources, especially for doctors (see statistics here: it's 2013's but current situation hasn't been changed much). To avoid further shortfall, the solution that the university came up is limiting the number of female doctors.

For this particular case, the conflict between insufficient infrastructure for working moms and shortfall of labour in the medical industry is the mechanism of the gender inequality.