More women become university leaders - equality still far away

Of the rectors in EUA’s database, 15% are currently women, compared to 11% in 2014 and 6% in 2008. The trend is clear and positive for gender equality. However, the differences between individual countries remain large, with about one third of rectors in Sweden, Norway and Finland being women, while a number of countries have less than 10%.
Female full professors remain a minority. According to the latest European Commission "She Figures” data on women in research, only one in five full professors is a woman. More...