Availability, spending sixty hours or more on work are implicit demands still associated with a top function. Therefore, Hoogsteder thinks, organisations and companies take a reserved attitude towards women. They don't want any fuss with pregnancy leave and working less afterwards. Adriana Esmeijer, who does have a high position within EUR, emphasizes that women of her generation are placed in a dilemma. Just when you have to take decisive steps in your career, your biological clock starts ticking.
Women also have other ambitions.
They see social values not only expressed via their work, whereas men derive a lot from their jobs. To get more women into the highest scientific functions, EUR, at the instigation of the ministry of education, has composed an emancipation plan. In the future, female professors will be allowed an employment of a minimum of three instead of four days. This will not be the case for male professors. For this measure assumes that only women have to or want to combine work and care.