PhD candidate with the Economic and Social History research group. My PhD research focuses on family firms and gender equality in the Netherlands (1900-2020) and is part of the SCOOP (Sustainble Cooperation) research programme. It tests whether specific characteristics of family firms, as opposed to their non-family counterparts, (may) lead to different outcomes with regards to gender equality in the workplace. These characteristics are investigated in a historical perspective, in order to study how they may have influenced gender equality differently depending on the societal context – or in other words, to account for changes over time. As such, my research aims to combine insights from social and economic history and sociology. The insights resulting from this study will form the base of new intervention tools that can promote gender equality in the business sector.

• The SCOOP project