If your organisation wants more women at the top, you will not succeed just by appointing a few women to top-level positions, claim Leiden researchers. You would be better off changing the sexist organisational culture, because this creates ‘queen bee’ behaviour, where women fight for their own position rather than for their gender.
Professor Christine Mummery has been appointed Board Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor Naomi Ellemers will become a member of KNAW.
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans for their €2.5 million prize money. This was during the official ceremony in The Hague, at which the outgoing Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science, Marja van Bijsterveldt, presented them with their prizes.