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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.

The gender imparity has been rampant and absolute, reflected in unequal prize money, sponsorship deals and magazine spreads.

Yet a year of protests over disparate law enforcement practices, a decade of particularly sharp income inequality and centuries of imparity in America show that racial reconciliation is impossible without some kind of broad-based, systemic reparations.

Imparity, im-par′i-ti, n. want of parity or equality: indivisibility into equal parts.—adjs.

With regard to the latter, however, I would observe that it by no means militates against a belief in the intellectual imparity of races, and the permanency of this imparity.