In 2012 the Dutch Network of Women Professors created the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund, a travel grant for female postdocs - up to 3 years after promotion and working in the Netherlands - who wish to travel abroad in the framework of their discipline. The LNVH created the travel grant at the request of prof. dr. Anne Cutler, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and emeritus professor of Comparative Language Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen. On the occasion of her retirement, she asked her colleagues and friends to forgo parting gifts and instead donate to the LNVH.