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Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s three conditions for working with NUI Galway.

Published: Monday, December 08, 2014

The president of NUI Galway has invited Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington to help him put right the University’s shocking imbalance of women in senior posts. Dr Sheehy Skeffington would really welcome this possibility and feels she could contribute a lot because of her own experience fighting her case. However she does not want this to simply be a way of brushing the problem yet again under the carpet. Therefore she has three conditions for her involvement

1. That NUI Galway promotes the five other women who, along with Dr Sheehy Skeffington, were interviewed but not promoted in 2009. They want their promotion back-dated to 2009 but are willing to forego any damages because it is the recognition of their worth which means most to them.

2. That NUI Galway admits that the subsequent round of promotions in 2014, for which there have been at least 20 appeals, was also flawed. That NUI Galway immediately puts this right in a way which at least ensures a sufficient number of shortlisted women are promoted to achieve gender balance among the successful candidates, as half those shortlisted and deemed eligible were female.

3. That the aim of any attempt by NUI Galway to address the issue of gender imbalance in senior posts be to have an equal amount of women as men in such posts, and that from now on the percentage of women promoted from each level will reflect the percentage at that level.