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professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement News - 17 November 2023
PhD candidate Agnes van Steen researched the history of the Leiden women’s rights movement (1860-1990) and found that the university produced many feminists.

Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard' News - 8 December 2022
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.

The UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights Event - 25 April 2024
Lecture, INVISIHIST event

The right diagnosis and faster for women with heart problems News - 27 February 2024
It often takes longer for women with heart problems to get the right diagnosis. In her Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture, Professor Hester den Ruijter will talk about how hormones influence the heart and the importance of medical research that focuses specifically on women.

Leiden Classics: Leiden University’s first women students News - 18 February 2014
It was not until 1878 that the first female students enrolled at Leiden University, but the discussion on whether women were suited to study was by no means over. 8 March is International Women's Day. BBC correspondente Kim Ghattas will deliver a lecture on 6 March on the struggle by Arabic women for…

While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way News - 27 March 2023
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.

Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections News - 30 July 2021
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…

University to raise orange flag against violence against women Announcement - 22 November 2022

Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history News - 19 June 2022
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.

Alumna first female rector of Venice: 'More women needed in academia' News - 9 April 2021
Alumna Tiziana Lippiello became the first female rector magnificus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last year. In this way, she hopes to contribute to emancipation in the academic world: 'We need more women here.'

Belittling and threats are part of everyday life for outspoken women News - 14 March 2022
In a fiery Annie Romein-Verschoor lecture, Sylvana Simons opened up about her experiences as a woman in politics. The leader of the BIJ1 party is regularly the subject of belittling comments and threats. Writer Aafke Romeijn, who reflected on the Simons’ lecture, has also been threatened frequently…