Your finest bullshit misogyny, please

[dorchadas]

So, you might have heard about the medical school scandal in Japan, where it came out that the low number of women receiving admission was because their tests were being penalized by the examiners. This launched an investigation, and it's been chugging along. Well, today there's an article about it in the Asahi Shinbun about the rationale for the score penalties, and it's exactly as garbage as you might expect:

第三者委の報告書によると、女子を不利に扱っていた理由を順大の教職員らに聞き取り調査をしたところ、①女子が男子よりも精神的な成熟が早く、受験時はコミュニケーション能力も高い傾向にあるが、入学後はその差が解消されるため補正を行う必要があった②医学部１年生全員が入る千葉県印西市のキャンパスの女子寮の収容人数が少ない――と説明があったという。

Which reads

"According to the investigative committee report as a result of investigations and interviews conducted with Juntendo University testing staff, the reason they gave for the handicap faced by women was that women mentally mature faster than men, and at the point when they take the test their communication skills are higher. However, because after entering school these differences even out, it's necessary to adjust for them. That's why there are so few students in the female dormitories in the Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture, campus that all beginning medical students enter."

Oh, no, it's not that we don't want female doctors. It's just that ladies are so good at talking that we have to adjust for that.

I wonder if anything will actually change due to this investigation. We'll see.

Comments

[dreamkist]

Wow.

[kjorteo]

 

[st_chair]

There's also the fact that young women resign soon after getting a job because of all the babies they're having. There wouldn't be enough doctors left in the country. Think about the sick, and of course the children. :( :(

[dorchadas]

I bet the people making those complaints seriously are the same people complaining about the low birth rate.

"There's not enough babies!"
"We can't give them jobs, they'll just quit to go have babies!"