[DanielleMolloy]

Even in this article it does not say 18 months.

"If a vacancy fails to attract suitable candidates within six months, it will be opened up to men, and after 18 months the entire scheme will be revised, the university said on Tuesday."

The rule is: For the first 6 months of any recruitment process, only look at female CVs. After this time, also start inviting the men. After 18 months, evaluate the success of this rule and decide whether to follow through for the full 5 years.

[zaroth]

For the next 18 months, at least, they will have the following policy; to spend the first the first 6 months after posting each new position trying to fill that new position exclusively with a woman.

So yes, in that article it does say “18 months”. It’s right in the part where it says “18” and “months”.

[DanielleMolloy]

Did you miss that the post that I replied to claimed that a Dutch university will "only hire women for the next 18 months"?

[antientropic]

If you want to be pedantic, dual_dingo wrote that the university wants to (not will) hire only women for the next 18 months, which is a pretty accurate representation of their new policy. So if suitable female candidates show up for every position in the next 18 months, then no male candidates will be hired at all.

[zaroth]

It seems like we’ve successfully cleared up any confusion here.