{"id":174374,"date":"2024-12-11T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=174374"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:38","slug":"increase-in-female-eur-professors-stagnates-since-reaching-target-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/12\/11\/increase-in-female-eur-professors-stagnates-since-reaching-target-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in female EUR professors stagnates since reaching target in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a spectacular rise, the increase in the proportion of female professors at Erasmus University has come to a halt. The university aimed for 25 per cent by 2025, a target reached in 2020. By 2023, the figure had risen by only 0.3 percentage points, which is even slightly lower than the previous year.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for Erasmus University could not provide EM with an explanation for the slight decrease of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous year. \u201cThe Monitor shows a levelling off and highlights that there is still a long way to go before achieving true gender equality in academia. Erasmus University Rotterdam remains committed to fostering an inclusive culture essential to reducing biases across all dimensions of diversity\u201d, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\t

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For the very first time, there are more than a thousand women full professors in the Netherlands. They make up 28.7 percent of the total. Their share increased at all universities, except in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

Women are still at a disadvantage in the academic world and this is only changing very slowly. The share of women professors increased by 1.1 percentage point this past year, says the annual monitor of the Dutch Network of Women Professors.<\/p>\n

Things are moving a bit faster again compared to the two previous years, when the growth percentage stayed under 1 percent. If things continue like this, it could take another twenty years before there\u2019s an equal share of men and women full professors, the monitor says.<\/p>\n\n\t

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