We're also missing: What percentage of women are accepted for a open professor position? It doesn't make sense to look at the number of male vs. female professors currently employed. These are positions where people stay for decades, and we've only truly been focused on the issue for the past 10 to 15 years.
Hidden deep in some statistics from the Danish ministry of education the numbers show that women are now more likely (edit: I was wrong about this part, it is just as likely, not more) to get hired as professors that men. It will take years to hit 50% male and 50% female professors, but the alternative is to fire existing professors, solely become they're men, or create new jobs, marked for women only, even if you technically don't need more professors.
The main point is that a woman is just as likely to be hired for an open position as man is. The interesting part is that women only make up 30% of the qualified applicants. So a women applying for a university job has a better chance of getting hired, compared to her male rivals. Page 73.
Hidden deep in some statistics from the Danish ministry of education the numbers show that women are now more likely (edit: I was wrong about this part, it is just as likely, not more) to get hired as professors that men. It will take years to hit 50% male and 50% female professors, but the alternative is to fire existing professors, solely become they're men, or create new jobs, marked for women only, even if you technically don't need more professors.
Edit: For those who can read it: https://ufm.dk/publikationer/2019/filer/maend-og-kvinder-pa-...
The main point is that a woman is just as likely to be hired for an open position as man is. The interesting part is that women only make up 30% of the qualified applicants. So a women applying for a university job has a better chance of getting hired, compared to her male rivals. Page 73.