20 female-only professorships are expected to be in place by September this year.
Mary Mitchell O'Connor in March 2019. Image: PA Archive/PA Images Mary Mitchell O'Connor in March 2019. Image: PA Archive/PA Images THE CREATION OF female-only professorships in Irish third-level institutions is “not discriminating against men”, the Minister of State for Higher Education has said.
Research by the Higher Education Authority showed that in 2017, 51% of lecturers were female, while only 24% of professor posts were filled by women. Mitchell O’Connor responded to a piece in the Irish Independent by Professor Patricia Casey in November 2018, which said women who held these posts “will be secretly mocked as not being real professors but only in post through favouritism”.
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