{"id":182810,"date":"2025-10-22T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=182810"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:59:29","slug":"mannen-vaker-dan-vrouwen-op-prestigieuze-post-aan-universiteit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/10\/22\/mannen-vaker-dan-vrouwen-op-prestigieuze-post-aan-universiteit\/","title":{"rendered":"Men more likely than women to hold prestigious positions at universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic management positions are not evenly distributed at Dutch universities. A survey shows that Dutch men are more likely to hold prestigious positions than women and international colleagues.<\/p>\n

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Who is assigned management tasks in the academic world and who is not? And at what level? On behalf of the National Network of Female Professors (LNVH), researchers distributed a questionnaire that was completed nearly 3,100 times.<\/p>\n

The survey shows that more than 70 percent of the university lecturers, associate professors, and professors surveyed perform management tasks in one way or another, in addition to their teaching and research.<\/p>\n

Women do this more often than men at a \u2018lower\u2019 level in the hierarchy. For example, 72 percent of research programs are led by women. Slightly higher up the career ladder are the research directors, where the percentage of women immediately drops below 40 percent.<\/p>\n

Also striking: international (senior) lecturers and professors are less likely to have management tasks than their Dutch colleagues. Roughly 40 percent of the staff comes from abroad, but at the higher levels, 70 to 80 percent of management tasks are performed by Dutch nationals. Internationals are therefore clearly underrepresented, according to the report published online by the LNVH.<\/p>\n\n\t

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