Austrian med school gives women grading edge

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2012-07-07 14:42

Article here. Excerpt:

'Antonio Bandera took a last nervous drag on his smoke Friday as he readied himself for the grueling eight-hour entrance exam for elite Vienna Medical University. Making the cut's hard enough, he said, and this year his chances may be even smaller: The university is grading men and women differently based on gender.

"It's not right to give one sex or the other the advantage," he said. "How you score should determine how your chances are."

The university's policy is apparently unique in Europe. Those responsible for giving women a grading edge are aware that it could expose the institution to EU legal action, on charges of discrimination, but they argue that it's needed to even the playing field. Since the Vienna medical school introduced its current entrance exam six years ago, they say, women on average have scored significantly lower each time than men.'

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of stupid in the dictionary, it would be people in authority like this
trying to give handouts to their people, or people they need for votes,
based on some insane notion of trying to level the playing field. its really
nothing more than an excuse for more handouts to (in this case) women.

i know nobody else liked it, but i still like my name for this whole sick
desire for handouts - 'handouts for halfwits' - what appears to be the gov. program for most people. and i apologise up front to people who really need and deserve extra help through no fault of their own.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2012-07-09 00:44