‘You need to promote women’ – NUIG professor on how she exposed gender inequalities

Ireland“NUI Galway are considering the implementation of gender quotas in their senior academic posts after a member of staff successfully filed a gender discrimination case. After several failed attempts to be promoted to senior lecturer, and discovering that only 1 in 17 senior lecturers in NUIG were women, Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington took a case to the Equality Tribunal …” (more, audio)

[Newstalk 106-108FM, 14 April]

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