Her research concerns the approximately 250 first women in Dutch politics in the period 1917-1927. With support from Atria's fellowship programme and the LIRA fund, she wrote a book on these pioneers.
Margit van der Steen is a visiting researcher at the KNAW Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture. She was managing director of the national Political History Research School, worked at the Centre for Parliamentary History (Radboud University Nijmegen), Leiden University and director of the Dutch Women's Studies Society at Utrecht University. She was also president of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Gender History and Dutch Women's Representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 2003.
In 2020, she was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for her commitment to science and society.
