Organisation - March 8, 2011
Many female students, few women at the top
Today is International Women's Day, a day to consider women's disadvantaged position in the world. The state of emancipation of women at Wageningen UR is summarized in ten statistics.

- 100 percent of the cashiers in the Forum canteen are female
- 89 percent of the Bachelor's students taking Nutrition and Health in Wageningen are female
- 66 percent of staff working part-time at Wageningen UR are female
- 56 per cent of the first-year students at Wageningen University are female
- 50 percent of the PhD students at Wageningen are female
- 41 percent of staff at Wageningen UR are female
- 34 percent of people with a PhD from Wageningen (2009) are female
- 12 percent of professors at Wageningen University are female
- 7 percent of the Bachelor's students taking Agrotechnology are female
- None of the members of the Wageningen UR Executive Board is female