{"id":162481,"date":"2023-12-14T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=162481"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:06","slug":"seven-headed-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/12\/14\/seven-headed-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-headed beast"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2014, when I was still a postdoc researcher, I noticed that female academics encountered more hurdles in their career path than their male colleagues. This realisation spurred me on to try to change this.<\/p>\n

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My intuition was soon proved right by the figures from the Female Professors Monitor (Monitor vrouwelijke hoogleraren<\/em>) conducted by the National Network of Female Professors (LNVH). The figures from this survey made it crystal clear that female professors were in the minority by a huge margin: only 14.8 percent of professors were women in 2011. That percentage has since increased to 26.7 percent in 2022, but the growth is flattening off. The latest edition of the Monitor<\/a> published last week found that, at the current rate, it will take until 2041 or even 2045 to reach an equal ratio.<\/p>\n\n\t

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