Only 25% of Trinity’s Top Professors are Female
Posted in Governance and administration on November 2nd, 2017 by steve
“Out of 88 chair professors in Trinity, only a quarter are women, according to a new report seen by The University Times. The report revealed that since 2014, there has only been a 9% increase in women being promoted to the top-level position. The Annual Equality Monitoring Report 2016/17 said that only 22 out of 88 chair professors, the highest grade of professor in Trinity, are women …” (more)
[Róisín Power, University Times, 2 November]
“There’s a letter in this week’s THE, from 50 Cambridge academics, which may interest some readers. It’s about the ‘gender gap’ in academic promotions. The basic message (which I am no doubt crudifying) …” (
“Women may fail to win chairs because they do not cite themselves enough. One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not …” (
“University managers without high-level academic achievement are winning the title of professor for ‘authority needs’, according to a confidential report obtained by the HES. Academic distinction at the international level is the traditional criterion for Australian professorship, according to a report for the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority. However, changes to higher education and academic roles over the past decade have had a run-on effect in changing the criteria for conferring the title of professor, according to the report’s author, Kelly Farrell …” (
