Ingrid Katharina van Engelshoven (born 12 July 1966) is a Dutch politician who served as Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Third Rutte cabinet from 26 October 2017 until 10 January 2022. A member of

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(D66) party, she was the

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woman from 12 May 2007 until 9 March 2013; before her election to the

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, she had been an alderwoman in

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, from 26 June 2014 to 16 February 2017. Van Engelshoven studied

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and

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. On 26 October 2017, she was appointed as Minister for Education, Culture and Science in

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's third cabinet, the first member of her party to hold the position.

Feminism

According to Van Engelshoven, there are too many "white men" working at colleges and universities in the Netherlands. She has claimed that this leads to "nasty incidents involving intimidation of female employees". She has qualified the decision of the TU Eindhoven to no longer accept men for new vacancies as "courageous". The Dutch Institute for Human Rights later ruled that this decision violates Dutch equality laws.

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