Ingrid van Engelshoven

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.

On 26 October 2017, she was appointed as Minister for Education, Culture and Science in Mark Rutte's third cabinet, the first member of her party to hold the position.

According to Van Engelshoven, there are too many "white men" working at colleges and universities in the Netherlands.

[3] She has claimed that this leads to "nasty incidents involving intimidation of female employees".

[3] She has qualified the decision of the TU Eindhoven to no longer accept men for new vacancies as "courageous".