Sir, – As Catherine McGuinness (Opinion, February 19th) says, it is possible to address gender inequality in academia. However, we now need concrete action, not just the "setting of standards".
I agree with Ms McGuinness that it requires a “degree of institutional maturity”, but this seems still to be sadly lacking.
Since I won my case at the Equality Tribunal, why does NUI Galway president Jim Browne say he desires an amicable resolution with the five women who, like me, were deemed eligible for promotion to senior lecturer in 2009, but were not promoted then or in 2014, yet so far has made no move to redress this injustice?
How can the promotion of nearly 70 per cent men to senior lecturer in NUI Galway in 2014, when 50 per cent of candidates deemed eligible for promotion were women, reflect “institutional maturity”?
The pursuit of legal battles through courts and tribunals will cost the university far more than the actual promotion of the five women and the dropping of an appeal against another case won against NUI Galway at the Equality Tribunal in June. It doesn’t take a task force to put right some glaring injustices to female academic staff in NUI Galway. – Yours, etc, MICHELINE SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON Ballinacourty, Clarinbridge, Co Galway.