Equal opportunities in figures

What is the percentage of women at the professorship level at WU? How many men graduate from a WU degree program? And how have these figures developed in recent years? These and other data on gender relations are collected annually at WU and published in the Equal Opportunities Report.

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Important developments in 2025:

  • Professor Level: Long-term increase; slight decline to 32.9% (35 FTE) in 2025.

  • Associate Professors and Lecturers: Women’s share exceeds 50% for the first time (52.5%; 38.3 FTE).

  • Assistant Professors (collective bargaining agreement): further decline to 34.2% (8 FTE).

  • Pre-docs and Post-docs: increase of approximately 2 percentage points each to 50.7% (pre-docs; 168 FTE) and 42.7% (post-docs; 81.4 FTE).

  • Leadership positions:

    • Academic leadership positions: Proportion of women rose from 24.5% (2018) to 43.1% (2025); department heads from 9% to 25%, institute heads from 26.7% to 43.6%, and research institute heads from 25% to 55.6%.

    • General Staff: Percentage of women in leadership positions at the DLE: 43.5% (2025)

  • Students: Downward trend at the bachelor’s level, with a percentage of women at 44.0%; 48% among master’s students and 45% among PhD/doctoral students

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