#60 - Ogino Ginko and Medical University Scandals

Ogino Ginko is known as the "first woman to practice Westernised medicine" in Japan. The number of hurdles she had to cross in order to get there was immense. 140 years later, attitudes towards women in medicine have not advanced as far as one would have hoped...

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Sources:

Hektoen International - Ogino Ginko  Mara Patessio - Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement Japan Times - Ogino Ginko article  Wikipedia - Ogino Ginko  Japanese Wikipedia - Ogino Ginko BBC - Japan medical schools scandal   Guardian - TMU scandal 1  Guardian - TMU scandal 2  Washington Post - TMU Scandal  Asahi Shimbun - St Marianna sued  Journal of Educational Integrity - TMU entrance exams scandal  Mainichi Shimbun - University refuses to accept responsibility  Asia-Pacific Journal - A Necessary Evil?  YouTube - TMU executives apologise poorly  Japan Times - TMU subsidies withdrawn  Asahi Shimbun - Legal ruling against TMU  YouTube - Seikou Nagaoka - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)