Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The proportion of women in professorships and management positions at NRW universities is growing. While 15.8 percent of professorships were held by women in 2007, their share increased in the following years to 20 percent (2011), 25.2 percent (2017) and currently 27.5 percent. This emerges from the "Gender Report 2022" published on Wednesday. "The steadily increasing number of female professors shows that we have set the right course. We will continue to push this development forward," explained NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes (CDU).
According to the study, 43.4 percent of the employees in the so-called academic mid-level faculty - i.e. the full-time scientific and artistic university staff without professorships - are currently female. However, this varies significantly by subject: in the medical faculties, a narrow majority of full-time staff are women. In the subject groups sport, mathematics, natural and engineering sciences, on the other hand, the proportion of women is less than 50 percent.
Across all disciplines and professional experience, the proportion of women in the higher salary brackets is falling. Women are also more frequently affected by individual discrimination, for example in the form of sexual harassment or discrimination based on their cultural origin. The ministry will take decisive action against this, according to Brandes.
The Gender Report is published every three years as an independent scientific study by the NRW Women's and Gender Research Network on behalf of the Ministry of Science.
