Gender discrimination

A Japanese medical school, Tokyo Medical University, is found to rig its entrance exams to discriminate against women for more than a decade, as the university seems to hold the belief that giving the education resources to women is a waste of resources due to the low participation of women in the labour force. Japan has a culture that has a serious issue of gender discrimination. It is stuck at 114 out of 144 countries on the World Economic Forum's rankings of gender inequality and the female participation rate in the labour force is significantly low, despite the current Prime Minister Abe is progressing his program of "womenomics" targeting increase female participation in the labour market.

If the environment is constant, then it is unfair to say Tokyo Medical University is wrong because if it is certain that the majority of women is not going to the labour force, the medical school should give more resources to those who are more likely to go to the labour market. However, the environment is not given, it is created by everyone in the community. If everyone takes the environment as given, then the environment is constant and cannot be changed. However, if people in the community are trying to do anything to improve the general environment, then the environment is changeable. Therefore, standing at the social responsibility point of view, the act of Tokyo Medical University is not socially desirable and does not hold social responsibility.

From Tokyo Medical University's rigging entrance exams to discriminate against women, we can see that the gender inequality in the Japanese community is very serious and has made people feel hopeless, some people already give up their efforts to improve the gender equality in the community.