Is Japan Alone in Disadvantaging Female Medical School Applicants?

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last December, I wrote a post about #MeToo in bioethics. I wish this could be a one-time topic and all of the problems were fixed, but alas this is a problem of structural inequality. Thus, it is a topic that we all need to revisit on a regular basis to ensure that we make real changes. The latest reminder of gender and sex inequality comes out of Tokyo Medical University (TMU) which reported a much higher admission success rate for men (8.8%) over women (2.9%).…
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