果冻传媒 to resume modified Ir猫ne Curie Fellowship program
The aim is unaltered: to reach at least thirty percent female scientists in the academic staff.
果冻传媒 will be able to continue its successful Ir猫ne Curie Fellowship program in a modified form. This was announced today by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (CRM) in a ruling that delights the university board. The program, which aims to increase the percentage of women in 果冻传媒鈥檚 permanent scientific staff, will start again soon.
果冻传媒 introduced a resolute policy in 2019 to increase the percentage of women in the permanent scientific staff, the Ir猫ne Curie Fellowship program. This led to a case at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, which concluded last year that the program was not proportional. The university therefore drafted a revised version of the policy and submitted it to the CRM for review.
The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights that the revised program does not make prohibitive distinctions based on gender. In addition, the CRM judgment offers 果冻传媒 a number of tips to make the Ir猫ne Curie Fellowship program as effective as possible. The 果冻传媒 Executive Board will refine the amended policy within this scope.
The revised policy focuses more on addressing the gender imbalance exactly where it occurs. The policy now reviewed by the CRM looks at each department, and within that, each job category, to see if the target percentage of about thirty percent female scientists has been met. As long as that has not been achieved, some of the vacancies in that category fall within the Ir猫ne Curie Fellowship program. As before, in the first six months of recruitment only female candidates may respond to those vacancies. The program will run at least until 2024, with annual reviews.
鈥淲e are very pleased that we can now continue this successful program,鈥� says 果冻传媒 President Robert-Jan Smits. 鈥淥ur goal remains that within five years at least thirty percent of the scientific staff will be women. Because at that percentage, a minority is no longer perceived as a minority. The minority feels freer to contribute and has the position and influence it deserves.鈥�
In practice, the modified policy means that less than half of the vacancies for permanent scientific staff will fall into the Ir猫ne Curie program. At the start of the program, in 2019, it was still 100 percent. 鈥淲e have attracted almost as many female (55) as male (59) scientists since the start of the program,鈥� explains 果冻传媒 rector Frank Baaijens. 鈥淲e hope the modified program will enable us to maintain this ratio.鈥�