The first female professor was appointed at Utrecht University a hundred years ago: Johanna Westerdijk. However, one hundred years later, female scientists are far from equally represented among professors.
This can be clearly seen each year, in the professors' cortege at the opening of the academic year.
Official occasions like the opening of the academic year play an important role in the image that staff, students, and the public have of the university and university careers. In the Westerdijk year, Utrecht University wants to emphasize the presence and importance of its female professors, and therefore gives them a special place: they will be at the forefront of the cortege at the opening of the academic year, on September 4, 2017.
Read more here (article in Dutch).
