{"id":93934,"date":"2019-01-15T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=93934"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:11","slug":"percentage-of-female-phd-candidates-is-decreasing-in-the-netherlands-but-not-in-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/01\/15\/percentage-of-female-phd-candidates-is-decreasing-in-the-netherlands-but-not-in-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Share of female PhD candidates is decreasing in the Netherlands, but not in Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The network representing PhD candidates in the Netherlands, Promovendi Netwerk Nederland (PNN), has expressed its disappointment after the Minister for Education, Ingrid van Engelshoven, refused to investigate why women are awarded fewer PhDs than men. The Minister will not consider a further analysis until the 2018 figures prove that this trend looks set to continue. PNN feels it will be too late then.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi-1280x960.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi-1280x960.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094 1280w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi-875x656.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094 875w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi-300x225.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094 300w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi-540x405.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094 540w, https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/09221753\/pnn-national-phd-day-promovendi.jpg?image-crop-positioner-ts=1766139094 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p><span>National PhD Day in Utrecht.<\/span><\/p> <p data-component=\"image-credits\" class=\"flex flex-wrap gap-2 items-center text-base\">\n\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<path d=\"M19.5 5.25H16.9012L15.6234 3.33375C15.555 3.23114 15.4623 3.147 15.3535 3.08879C15.2448 3.03057 15.1233 3.00007 15 3H9C8.87665 3.00007 8.75522 3.03057 8.64648 3.08879C8.53773 3.147 8.44502 3.23114 8.37656 3.33375L7.09781 5.25H4.5C3.90326 5.25 3.33097 5.48705 2.90901 5.90901C2.48705 6.33097 2.25 6.90326 2.25 7.5V18C2.25 18.5967 2.48705 19.169 2.90901 19.591C3.33097 20.0129 3.90326 20.25 4.5 20.25H19.5C20.0967 20.25 20.669 20.0129 21.091 19.591C21.5129 19.169 21.75 18.5967 21.75 18V7.5C21.75 6.90326 21.5129 6.33097 21.091 5.90901C20.669 5.48705 20.0967 5.25 19.5 5.25ZM15.375 12.375C15.375 13.0425 15.1771 13.695 14.8062 14.25C14.4354 14.8051 13.9083 15.2376 13.2916 15.4931C12.6749 15.7485 11.9963 15.8154 11.3416 15.6852C10.6869 15.5549 10.0855 15.2335 9.61351 14.7615C9.14151 14.2895 8.82007 13.6881 8.68985 13.0334C8.55962 12.3787 8.62646 11.7001 8.88191 11.0834C9.13735 10.4667 9.56993 9.93964 10.125 9.56879C10.68 9.19794 11.3325 9 12 9C12.8951 9 13.7535 9.35558 14.3865 9.98851C15.0194 10.6214 15.375 11.4799 15.375 12.375Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Image by:<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hetpnn\/status\/792351756730630144\/photo\/1\" class=\"underline hocus:no-underline decoration-1 underline-offset-2\">Promovendi Netwerk Nederland<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women in Science<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/12\/13\/eur-will-not-achieve-target-regarding-female-professors\/\">\u2018EUR will not achieve target regarding female professors\u2019<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/09\/24\/diversity-officer-bij-vertrek-de-universiteit-is-vaak-geen-veilige-plek-om-te-werken\/\">Outgoing Diversity Officer: \u2018The university often isn\u2019t a safe place to work at\u2019<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/10\/11\/metooacademia-sexual-intimidation-occurs-at-universities-as-well\/\">#MeTooAcademia: \u2018Sexual intimidation occurs at universities, as well\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Even though the percentage of women at all levels of the academic career ladder is rising, the opposite is true for PhD students, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.lnvh.nl\/\">Women Professors\u2019 Monitor<\/a> recently showed. Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of female PhD students dropped by nearly two percent points, from 44.2% to 42.7%. It should be noted that this trend cannot be observed at all Dutch universities. For instance, at Erasmus University, the share of female PhD candidates actually rose from 46.9% to 53.7%.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#039;Worrisome&#039;<\/h2><p>The Dutch Labour Party, PvdA, raised some questions in the Dutch Lower House in which it expressed its belief that this is an alarming trend that calls for further analysis. The Minister, Ingrid van Engelshoven, emphasised in her\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tweedekamer.nl\/kamerstukken\/kamervragen\/detail?id=2019D00523&amp;did=2019D00523\">reply to the questions<\/a><\/u>\u00a0that the number of women writing PhD dissertations is still rising in absolute numbers.<\/p>\n<p>However, she did concede in her reply that if the percentage of female PhD students continues to drop, this will indeed constitute a worrisome trend. \u201cThe road to the pinnacle of academia must be paved evenly at all levels. If not, we will not achieve a proportionate distribution of male and female academics.\u201d She wishes to use the 2018 figures to determine whether the situation merits a further investigation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bad sign<\/h2><p>\u201cShe is wasting valuable time,\u201d says Anne de Vries, the President of PNN. She believes there is ample reason to start looking into the causes of the declining number of female PhD candidates at once. \u201cThe percentage of women has been dropping for six consecutive years now. If you seek to achieve equal gender representation, that is not a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Vries admits there are many possible reasons for the decrease, and not all of them are necessarily worrisome. \u201cPerhaps we now have more foreign PhD students, and perhaps there are more men among these foreign students than women. If that is the case, it says more about the academic culture of certain other countries than about the Netherlands. Or perhaps more money was allocated to the recruitment of PhD students in STEM subjects, which tend to attract more men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, if the decrease in the percentage of female PhD students was caused by other factors, that would constitute an alarming trend. For instance, it would be worrisome if being a scientist has become less attractive to women. \u201cOr worse, if women are less likely than men to be accepted as a PhD student. 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