{"id":105368,"date":"2019-11-05T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=105368"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:33","slug":"minister-does-not-want-national-harassment-complaints-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/11\/05\/minister-does-not-want-national-harassment-complaints-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister does not want national harassment complaints committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven does not envisage a national harassment complaints committee as a solution to misconduct within universities. She\u2019d prefer to aim for a cultural shift. The idea for a complaints commission was proposed by trade unions FNV and VAWO.<\/p>\n

This spring, two alarming reports appeared about sexual harassment and harassment in the university world. One was from trade unions FNV and VAWO. They claimed that four in ten university employees suffers from bullying, gossip, exclusion or abuse of power.<\/p>\n

The other report was from the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH) and contained testimonies from over fifty female academics on their harassment experiences. These included obstruction of scientific practice, sexual harassment, physical and verbal threats, insults and exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\t

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