{"id":151661,"date":"2023-03-09T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=151661"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:41","slug":"student-sasha-goes-to-finals-miss-beauty-of-zuid-holland-and-makes-a-case-for-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/03\/09\/student-sasha-goes-to-finals-miss-beauty-of-zuid-holland-and-makes-a-case-for-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Sasha goes to finals Miss Beauty of Zuid-Holland and makes a case for women’s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law student Sasha Verhoef will compete for the title Miss Beauty of Zuid-Holland 2023 this Sunday. She will use her place in the final to put women’s rights on the agenda. “The position of women in the Netherlands is not nearly as good as people think, there is still a lot of work to do”, she said.<\/p>\n

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Sasha never expected to enter a beauty pageant.<\/span><\/p>

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Since childhood, Sasha has loved, as she puts it, \u2018girly things\u2019, such as fashion and makeup. She occasionally saw the American Miss Universe pageant on TV, yet she never expected to enter a pageant herself. \u201cI\u2019m very shy by nature\u201d, she says. \u201cI always get so nervous when I have to stand in front of an audience.\u201d Her best friend\u2019s sister participated before and asked if Sasha wanted to try the audition, too. \u201cI thought: this is a fun way to step out of my comfort zone\u201d, she says. In the finals, she will have to address five hundred people in the audience from the stage. \u201cLater, I can put those skills to good use as a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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Women's rights<\/h2>

As she prepares for the finals, she has a terribly busy schedule. She has several rehearsals for dance and catwalk walking and has to raise money for charity. For this, she went flyering on the Zuidplein \u2013 with a flyer she designed herself \u2013 to raise money for the LINDA.foundation, that helps less fortunate families in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

In the finals, the pageant has a \u2018hashtag round\u2019 about social issues. There she hopes to excel with her chosen theme: women\u2019s rights. \u201cThe position of women in the Netherlands is not nearly as good as people think. For example, women are paid 13 percent less than men for the same job. That\u2019s ridiculous, isn\u2019t it? Also, women experience abusive behaviour more often than men. In short, there is still a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sasha is now in her third year and plans to do a master\u2019s degree in Criminal Justice after her bachelor. In her spare time, she volunteers at a legal store on Goeree-Overflakkee. \u201cI find my field very fun and interesting. After my studies, I\u2019d like to work as a lawyer and my big dream is to become a criminal judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does her family think about her participating in the pageant? \u201cWhen I told my mother about it, she said that she herself once participated in a miss pageant in the Hoeksche Waard\u201d, she laughs. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that at all! So maybe it runs in the family a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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