Cases of gender, disability bias deal big blow to Japan

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the practice of unfairly docking marks in entrance exam scripts of female applicants appeared to be "quite widespread".....Tokyo Medical University's disclosure this August that it has been deliberately making it tougher for female applicants to enrol.

Separately, the government was found to have padded the number of employees with disabilities in its hire so that it can meet its own legal quota. The inflated count of 3,700also included dead and retired people, a probe on Monday found

Qn:   Assess the view that attempts to combat discrimination can never be truly effective. (DHS Prelim 2018)