Official Bitch about daily life in NUIG!

wmirl wrote: »

They're not technically employed by the college. Campbells handles the catering in the Bialann (unless that's changed since I last checked)

challengemaster wrote: »

IMO that was either a farce or blown out of proportion. There's a minuscule number of women involved in CS - that doesn't mean its discrimination.

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington has recently taken on and won a gender discrimination case against NUIG at the equality tribunal. Perhaps you can help with Micheline's campaign to right this wrong and the gender imbalance at Galway University. This Tuesday 9th at 1.15 pm in the University quad she is going to announce the three conditions she is making to the university for any inclusion in a task force they are setting up (read below to see 3 conditions)
"It has been reported that I have agreed to help the University with their task force. I have not agreed to do anything formal like this. It does not take a task force to promote 5 women or address the recent round of promotions that was also flawed. These must be addressed first. On Tuesday, I will be making public my 3 conditions to being officially involved in any way. They are attached and I have already given them to the President for circulation at higher university levels.
I have one suggestion that you might help with: we plan to get as many supporters as possible to come to the NUI Galway Quadrangle at 1.15pm for the announcement of these conditions. The media will be present, hopefully RTÉ TV as well as members of the print press who have already extensively reported our case. It would be brilliant to have as many people –especially women- turn out in our support as possible.

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

Ficheall wrote: »

Interesting. Do we know who those promoted to Senior Lecturer ahead of her were? I'm finding it difficult to find that info.

The only one I've found so far who was promoted in 2014 is John Breslin, and I'm pretty sure everyone knows he's amazing. Who is the guy mentioned in the article that apparently wasn't eligible?

“There were 46 people from across campus who went for promotion to senior lectureship in the 2008 round,” she says. Of those candidates, 23 men and seven women were shortlisted for interview, of whom Sheehy Skeffington was one. By the end of the selection process, in 2009, 16 men and one woman had been promoted.