Aug 28
More women received a PhD in the past fifteen years. In the course of 2004/2005, 40 percent of the dutch PhD’s were female, thrice as much as in 1990/1991. The number of male PhD’s increased with 14 percent.
the Dutch Central Office of Statistics (Statistics Netherlands) presented these figures today. Among staff women are still a minority, among the PhD’s they are catching up.
Women mostly have a PhD in the field of healthcare, welness, linguistics, history and art. There is hardly any woman who defends her thesis in the traditional male sciences like technology, industry and construction and the beta sciences.