A Japanese medical school was sanctioned for sexist discrimination by making women pass a more difficult entrance exam than men, local sources reported.
Juntendo University, located in Tokyo, Japan, will have to compensate the 13 plaintiffs, with a total of 8 million yen (59,000 euros or 62,000 dollars), for sexist discrimination, said a spokesman for the court that adopted the measure.
The institution explained in 2018 that it sought to “reduce the gap with male students” since, according to its criteria, women have superior communication skills and therefore have an advantage in interviews in relation to men.
The Japanese government opened an investigation four years ago after another establishment, the Tokyo Medical University, admitted that it falsified the marks of female candidates, giving them a lower score than the one that corresponded, so that the proportion of women remain at around 30 percent, the AFP news agency reported.
According to local media, the selection committee did this because they felt that many women who became doctors later left their jobs to marry and have children.
The Ministry of Education then explained that it scrutinized the entrance examinations of 81 public and private universities and discovered reprehensible procedures in ten of them.