
{"id":160980,"date":"2024-03-07T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=160980"},"modified":"2024-03-08T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T07:51:40","slug":"more-women-leaders-at-the-top-on-global-universities-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/more-women-leaders-at-the-top-on-global-universities-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"More women leaders at the top on global universities ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More women are now at the very top of the world\u2019s top universities. This is according to Times Higher Education THE, author of the annual World University Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Women now head 50 out of the world\u2019s top 200 universities on the ranking. This is two more female leaders than last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The resignations of two very distinguished female leaders from two prestigious Ivy League universities was a massive set-back and was only offset by the increase in the number of female leaders in Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Ellie Bothwell, THE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the United States, there has\u202f been a slight decline compared to last year, from 16 to 15 top university leaders. This was partly due to two recent high profile resignations: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claudine_Gay\">Claudine Gay<\/a>, who was president of Harvard University, stepped down in January after accusations of plagiarism and controversy following an appearance before a US Congress hearing. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liz_Magill\">Elizabeth Magill<\/a>, who was president of University of Pennsylvania, resigned after the same hearing. Claudine Gay and Elizabeth Magill were both replaced by men.<\/p>\n<h3>Upward trend<\/h3>\n<p>According to Times Higher Education\u2019s rankings editor Ellie Bothwell, the high profile US resignations at the top of the league tables was a glitch in an otherwise upward trend:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe resignations of two very distinguished female leaders from two prestigious Ivy League universities was a massive set-back and was only offset by the increase in the number of female leaders in Europe,\u00ab says Ellie Bothwell.<\/p>\n<p>This year Europe had five more women leaders at the top of the top-ranked universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands has 11 universities in the top 200. It has six, up from five last year, females leading higher education institutions in the country.\u00a0Six of Germany\u2019s 21 top universities have women leaders.<\/p>\n<h3>14 out of 27 countries no women<\/h3>\n<p>Of the 27 countries that feature universities in the top 200, 14 countries do not have any women leading their top institutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While progress has been made over the last nine years, which is encouraging, there is still a long way to go to get an equal number of male and female leaders<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Ellie Bothwell, THE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This includes Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>It has no women leaders at the very top of the three universities that are among the top 200 on the THE list (University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Technical University of Denmark).<\/p>\n<p>Of the remaining five Danish universities, only one has a female rector, namely Hanne Leth Andersen of Roskilde University.<\/p>\n<p>THE started counting women leaders in the top 200 ranked universities in 2015. There are now 22 more women university leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to this global trend, Ellie Bothwell of Times Higher Education says that \u00bbwhile progress has been made over the last nine years, which is encouraging, there is still a long way to go to get an equal number of male and female leaders.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The data was drawn from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2024\/world-ranking\">THE\u2019s World University Rankings 2024.<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are now \u2013 for the first time \u2013 at the very top of more than 25 per cent of the highest ranked universities on the Times 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This is according to Times Higher Education THE, author of the annual World University Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Women now head 50 out of the world\u2019s top 200 universities on the ranking. This is two more female leaders than last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The resignations of two very distinguished female leaders from two prestigious Ivy League universities was a massive set-back and was only offset by the increase in the number of female leaders in Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Ellie Bothwell, THE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the United States, there has\u202f been a slight decline compared to last year, from 16 to 15 top university leaders. This was partly due to two recent high profile resignations: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claudine_Gay\">Claudine Gay<\/a>, who was president of Harvard University, stepped down in January after accusations of plagiarism and controversy following an appearance before a US Congress hearing. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liz_Magill\">Elizabeth Magill<\/a>, who was president of University of Pennsylvania, resigned after the same hearing. Claudine Gay and Elizabeth Magill were both replaced by men.<\/p>\n<h3>Upward trend<\/h3>\n<p>According to Times Higher Education\u2019s rankings editor Ellie Bothwell, the high profile US resignations at the top of the league tables was a glitch in an otherwise upward trend:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe resignations of two very distinguished female leaders from two prestigious Ivy League universities was a massive set-back and was only offset by the increase in the number of female leaders in Europe,\u00ab says Ellie Bothwell.<\/p>\n<p>This year Europe had five more women leaders at the top of the top-ranked universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands has 11 universities in the top 200. It has six, up from five last year, females leading higher education institutions in the country.\u00a0Six of Germany\u2019s 21 top universities have women leaders.<\/p>\n<h3>14 out of 27 countries no women<\/h3>\n<p>Of the 27 countries that feature universities in the top 200, 14 countries do not have any women leading their top institutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While progress has been made over the last nine years, which is encouraging, there is still a long way to go to get an equal number of male and female leaders<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Ellie Bothwell, THE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This includes Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>It has no women leaders at the very top of the three universities that are among the top 200 on the THE list (University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Technical University of Denmark).<\/p>\n<p>Of the remaining five Danish universities, only one has a female rector, namely Hanne Leth Andersen of Roskilde University.<\/p>\n<p>THE started counting women leaders in the top 200 ranked universities in 2015. There are now 22 more women university leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to this global trend, Ellie Bothwell of Times Higher Education says that \u00bbwhile progress has been made over the last nine years, which is encouraging, there is still a long way to go to get an equal number of male and female leaders.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The data was drawn from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2024\/world-ranking\">THE\u2019s World University Rankings 2024.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":45,"name":"International","slug":"international","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":45,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":315,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":674,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/incollage_20240308_083407115-1280x719.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160980"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161134,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160980\/revisions\/161134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}