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 representation at the highest academic level would “underpin the transformation and cultural change” necessary to ensure that Ireland’s higher education “fully realizes the benefits of gender diversity.”

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