Discrimination against women in medicine: lessons from Tokyo

Lovett, Kate; Ross, David A.

doi:10.1136/bmj.k3685

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“…caregiving obligations than women. Considering the potential sexism and discrimination 5 as well as hierarchical society in Japan, further efforts to increase diversity would be needed.…”

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Sex Differences in the Japanese Circulation Society Guideline Writing Committee Authorship Between 2008 and 2022

Yamashita

Nakayama

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Circ: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

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“…caregiving obligations than women. Considering the potential sexism and discrimination 5 as well as hierarchical society in Japan, further efforts to increase diversity would be needed.…”

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“…In Japan, men have traditionally been chosen as leaders due to societal expectations that they are the primary breadwinners and can work long hours with fewer childcare and caregiving obligations than women. Considering the potential sexism and discrimination 5 as well as hierarchical society in Japan, further efforts to increase diversity would be needed.…”

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Sex Differences in the Japanese Circulation Society Guideline Writing Committee Authorship Between 2008 and 2022

Yamashita

Nakayama

et al. 2023

Circ: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

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Gender bias in the medical school admission system in Japan

Fukami

Okoshi²,

Tomizawa

2022

SN Soc Sci

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The 2018 Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) survey revealed discrimination against women in the admissions process of four Japanese medical schools, although it is not known how unusual the trend is for entire medical schools to enroll men and women. Therefore, this paper aims to examine how women are disadvantaged when they take entrance examinations for medical schools in Japan, compared to other academic disciplines. A null hypothesis that the average enrollment rates by gender in each academic discipline from 2015 to 2020 are the same was used to test the population ratio, and p-values were calculated. The results showed that no significant gender differences were found in the other disciplines, but the male enrollment rate was significantly higher only in medical schools (p < 0.01). This could be because the academic performance of men exceeds that of women in admissions. However, the percentage of women who passed the national examination for medical practitioners has been consistently high since 1997, suggesting that women were subjected to more difficult admission standards than their male counterparts or may have performed better during their years at medical school. As university entrance examinations in Japan are conducted in a closed environment, further information is expected to be disclosed as the matter continues to attract social attention for a better admission system.

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The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan

Itō,

Alexy

2023

Contemporary Japan

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Discrimination against women in medicine: lessons from Tokyo

Abstract: The international medical community must look for and reverse all workforce inequalities

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Sex Differences in the Japanese Circulation Society Guideline Writing Committee Authorship Between 2008 and 2022

Sex Differences in the Japanese Circulation Society Guideline Writing Committee Authorship Between 2008 and 2022

Gender bias in the medical school admission system in Japan

The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan

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