{"id":164967,"date":"2024-03-07T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=164967"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:12","slug":"women-in-charge-at-six-research-universities-and-eighteen-hogescholen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/03\/07\/women-in-charge-at-six-research-universities-and-eighteen-hogescholen\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in charge at six research universities and eighteen hogescholen<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

At half of all hogescholen<\/em> (universities of applied sciences), a woman is in command. The same goes for six out of the fourteen research universities, a HOP census reveals in the run-up to International Women\u2019s Day on 8 March.<\/p>\n

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The Executive Board of Erasmus University with, from left to right, Ellen van Schoten, Ed Brinksma and Annelien Bredenoord.<\/span><\/p>

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In board member circles, the glass ceiling seems to have all but disappeared. It used to be less customary, but by now a lot of women have made their way to the top of Dutch higher education.<\/p>\n

Out of 36 universities of applied sciences, eighteen have a woman for board president and eighteen a man. So it\u2019s exactly fifty-fifty. Looking at their fellow board members, this equality hasn\u2019t been accomplished yet: we counted sixteen women and thirty men. This includes a few interim board members.<\/p>\n

Six out of the fourteen research universities have a woman for president and the same number have a woman for rector. In total, the boards feature nineteen women and 22 men. Out of the eight men presidents, two simultaneously hold the rectorship.<\/p>\n

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Compared to other countries, there are a lot of women in board rooms. British education journal Times Higher Education looked at the top 200 of its world ranking and counted fifty women board presidents. That\u2019s one quarter.<\/p>\n

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Out of the 56 top-tier American universities, fifteen have a woman as their chief executive (27 percent). The same goes for nine out of twenty-five British universities (36 percent).<\/p>\n

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