Posted on 12/08/2019 11:48:28 AM PST by karpov
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Fewer than one in five undergraduates at the [University of Tokyo] were women.
The dearth of women at Todai is a byproduct of deep-seated gender inequality in Japan, where women are still not expected to achieve as much as men and sometimes hold themselves back from educational opportunities.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promoted an agenda of female empowerment, boasting that Japan’s labor force participation rate among women outranks even the United States. Yet few women make it to the executive suite or the highest levels of government.
The disconnect starts at school. Although women make up nearly half the nation’s undergraduate population, the oldest and most elite universities reflect — and magnify — a lackluster record in elevating women to the most powerful reaches of society.
For nearly two decades, enrollment of women at the University of Tokyo has hovered around 20 percent, an imparity that extends across many top colleges. Among seven publicly funded national institutions, women make up just over one quarter of undergraduates. At the exclusive private universities Keio and Waseda, women are a little over a third.
They lag other selective institutions across Asia. Women are close to half of the student body at Peking University in China, 40 percent of Seoul National in South Korea and 51 percent of the National University of Singapore.
At Todai, “you can see right away there is something completely out of balance,” said Ms. Hayashi, a literature major. “Because women are half of society, there is something strange about a university that is only 20 percent women.”
In status-conscious Japan, a diploma from Todai is the ultimate pedigree — the equivalent of Harvard, Stanford and M.I.T. all rolled into one. It opens doors in politics, business, law and science.
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Since there is more variance in males than females (more male geniuses and more male idiots), even a sex-neutral admission system at a very selective university will tend to admit more males than females, although I don't know if it would lead a 4-to-1 ratio.
The NYT must immediately ask Carlos Slim for a large loan to finance it’s efforts to focus the opprobrium of the world on this awful, backward country, similar in so many ways to Selma, Alabama, in the 1930s.
The nyt considers this to be a bad thing. Wondering what it has to say about the fact that MALES are discriminated against in USA college admissions.
The Japanese don’t fart around with self-destructive ‘political correctness.’
or white males and male Asians are discriminated. How about straight Christian heteros? Leave it the Slimes to manufacture anger with their woke writers..
HORRORS!
Probably why it’s the most elite university.
The Delusional Lying Leftist Political Correctness hasn’t consumed them yet.
Lucky them.
I work at a company which employs many engineers. (And clearly makes PC hiring decisions of late.) One is female.
ML/NJ
The Slimes should go to Shitcanistan. And see how many women are in prestigious universities.
Oh wait. There aren’t any prestigious universities in Shitcanistan.
What a joke...!
Its Japan’s MIT and its famous if a woman graduates from there...?
Cant get married...!
How many girl applicants does that turn away...?
TONS AND TONS.
[[At Japan’s Most Elite University, Just 1 in 5 Students Is a Woman]]
Ahhhh- but what a Woman!
Same with 95% of black woman CEO’s:
Verrrry hard to get and remain married.
He’s beatboxing, she’s crunching numbers.
She’s yachting, he’s meeting with his parole officer.
Hearing “TouDai SotsugyouSei” is like hearing from a potential date:
“I have a lifeling headache and panic if I see a penis”
Famous in Japan.
I graduated at Stanford Major in Business. In my senior year, only 12 were women. 42 in total. Probably why I asked chicks from other majors for dates like the Lit undergrads :)
They ‘obviously’ need more affirmative action.
That must be the *only* answer...
Bet they have even less illegals on a free ride.
I’m sure Japan is shattered at not living up to the exalted standards of the NYT, whose staff never saw a country they couldn’t run better than the people in it. Including ours.
The Japanese keep a firm hand in control of the female dynamic of “deux ex machina” and all of the hoo haw associated with it. They value peace of mind.
They see the #MeToo movement and shudder.
We’re headed to a 5:1 ratio ourselves, but women to men. Mostly in social indoctrination majors.
Japan’s universities don’t have any truck with Diversity and such. They admit based on merit. Merit is a racist gynephobic ethnophobic ideology.
Japan expects its women to be wives and mothers primarily because if they continue to go the modern Western woman route, Japan will die.
>>The dearth of women at Todai is a byproduct of deep-seated gender inequality in Japan
No, it’s just men are hyper-competitive and there’s a lot of competition to get into Todai.
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