Ireland announces women-only professorships to aid closing the gender gap
Ireland has recently announced a new plan to combat gender inequality, especially in higher education, by creating women-only professor positions across its universities and technology institutes. Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O'Connor said the project would ensure that 40% of Ireland's professor-level positions would be held be women by 2024. Speaking at the Gender Action Plan for Higher Education's launch in Dublin on Sunday, O'Connor said that increasing female […]