UvA meets target for female professors and aims even higher by 2030
The proportion of female professors at the UvA has risen slightly to 30.5 per cent, according to the annual monitor by the National Network of Female Professors (LNVH). Last year, it was already clear that the UvA had met its own target of 30 per cent. By 2030, the UvA aims for at least 40 per cent of professors to be women.
For the 2025 monitor, the UvA had set a target of at least 30 per cent of all professors being women. However, this target had already been reached a year ago, when the university hit exactly that percentage. In this year’s monitor, an additional half a percentage point has been gained. This puts the UvA slightly above the national average of 29.9 per cent, compared with 28.7 per cent a year ago.
The share of female professors is highest at the Open University (42.8 per cent), Maastricht University (36.2 per cent) and Leiden University (34.2 per cent). With 18.6 per cent female professors, TU Delft scores the lowest by far.
Target for 2030
Now that the 2025 target has been reached, the UvA is looking ahead. For 2030, it has been set that forty per cent of professors should be women. The UvA is not the most ambitious university in this respect; Utrecht University has set a target of fifty per cent for 2030. To reach that goal, Utrecht
University will need to achieve a gain of more than fourteen percentage points in five years.
At the university medical centres, the position of female professors appears somewhat stronger. Nationally, the share of female professors at UMCs rose from 31.6 per cent in 2024 to 33.2 per cent in 2025. Amsterdam UMC achieves the highest share here at 39 per cent. Interestingly, last year the proportion of female professors at Amsterdam UMC was 39.3 per cent, indicating a slight decrease.
