Still few female professors – UT News

  The top of the academic ladder is still dominated by men. Women are less likely to become a professor and also get paid less.

 In 2014 was in full-time jobs are not counted seventeen percent of all professors are women, according to the Monitor Female Professors published today. In 2012 that figure was 14.8 percent. It is so piecemeal progress, but at this rate it will take another forty years before in the Netherlands as many men as women are professors.

 “Thorn in our eye”

 Virtually all European countries are doing better than the Netherlands. “It is a thorn in our eye,” said the Rotterdam professor Marise Born of the National network of female professors. “You can say that things are improving, but we still dangling down in Europe.”

 Female talent it is not. “Every professor who will retire, can be replaced in principle by a woman,” says Born. “The much-heard argument that it is difficult to find women, we refute this report.

 At every career move make women less chance of promotion, according to the Monitor. There is still a glass ceiling, set makers. Especially in Wageningen, Rotterdam and Maastricht, there are significantly fewer women professors, associate professor, and the so-called Glass Ceiling Index highest. The UT state of the fourteen universities that are included in the survey in tenth place (see table below).

 

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 Moreover, women still earn less than men. There is little in change. One of the most common explanations for this is that more women were working part time, but among professors, women work almost as often fulltime as men (68 percent vs. 71 percent). In female associate professors is 65 percent full employment, against 79 percent of men.

 “We do not yet know how it is now all about his salary differences,” Born said of the national network. That is currently being investigated. “The way women negotiate may be a factor, it may also have to do with age. But I hope that women who find that they are paid less, say: wait a minute, that’s not fair ‘

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 Born is not enthusiastic about mandatory quotas to get the low percentage of female professors up. “I’d rather think: grab that Dutch culture of dialogue to a joint solution. Not only for women but also for other minorities are underrepresented. We have men in need, I would say. Quotas are really a palliative. “

 Born sees much more in addressing unconscious mechanisms where minorities suffer disadvantages. “I think for example of the training and selection of Chairmen of selection committees, but also to the appointment of a chief diversity officer . They have done well at the Free University and Erasmus University.

 Women may also be best what gehaaider says Born. “Sometimes women find it annoying that they get a chance just because they are women. For example if the preference for equal ability for a woman. Be there is pragmatic, I say. Just do it. “

 Critical mass

 Because the process towards more female professors works like a snowball. There is such a thing as a ‘critical mass’, when at least thirty percent of the corps of professors are women, takes place suddenly accelerated. Born: ‘Leiden University heading towards thirty percent female professors (23 percent, ed.). I do not think it’s a coincidence that precisely because some critical professors have joined in Athena’s Angels. “

 It is easier to be critical if there are more people who understand what you mean, Born will say. “If you’re not the only one, you’re stronger. This is true not only for women but for all minorities. “