#私たちは女性差別に怒っていい
Tokyo Medical University has lowered the scores of women looking to be admitted to the university. Not only that, they have raised the scores of men and the children of prominent officials. This is not a "wage gap" issue, but a legitimate incident of discrimination against women. Students were not alerted of this before the exam, which makes this even more unfair both to prospective and current students. Women had to clear higher standards than men in order to get an education both at Tokyo Medical University and other institutions.
The discrimination against women isn't limited to education either. Women are refused work due to the assumption that they'll eventually get married and have kids as if men don't get married and have kids too. When some of these women do have kids, they are forcefully resigned and sometimes even held hostage at their workplace until they eventually do so. Others are told to sign up for departments that are "more suited for women" or refused jobs altogether. Their reasoning is that women will end their careers after getting married and giving birth, yet many women said they would continue their career after childbirth after a survey.
Men don't have it much better either. They are expected to work long hours without being paid overtime and go drinking afterwards. Not only that, the pressure to marry wears on men too. One middle-aged Japanese man was called "defective as a human" and told that he should "grovel in front of this parents' graves and beg for forgiveness." Add to that the sexual repression in Japan and it's the perfect recipe for a rapidly declining birth rate.
