There is a gender pay gap in the Netherlands: working women earn around 13,7% less than working men. Part of this gap can be explained.

Summary of report Women on boards; highlights of effective policies across the EU.

This poster of 43 by 60 cm was mounted on a wall in the city of Utrecht on the 28th of May 1986. It was provoked by the results of the elections a week earlier. The Utrechtse Vrouwen voor Economische Zelfstandigheid (Utrecht Women for Economic Independence) demanded more paid work for women and equal treatment […]

This poster with seventeen professions in which women were not employed, or only very rarely, was shown on the Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid (National Exhibition of Women’s Labor) which was held in The Hague in 1898. Around the year 1900, women’s labor had a low standing in all social classes. Paid work was even taboo for […]

In 1978, the photographer Bertien van Manen captured the lives of female immigrant workers.

Betsy Perk (1833-1906) was a multifaceted woman. She wrote novels, plays and worked as a translator. In 1872, she made a renowned lecture tour together with the all-round feminist Mina Kruseman. But she didn’t stop there. In 1871, she founded the first rural women association in the Netherlands: Arbeid Adelt (the Nobility of Labor). The aim of Arbeid […]

In 1901 the Nationaal Bureau voor Vrouwenarbeid (National bureau for women’s labor) was founded.