The final report from an inquiry into gender equality at NUI Galway will be presented to the Governing Authority of the college next month.
A taskforce was established at the university in February last year to assess and advise on how best the college could set up a process and timeframe to address gender equality.
It followed Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s successful Equality Tribunal case against the college.
Women hold just over half of all lecturer posts at NUIG.
However, only 30 per cent of senior lecturers are women and only 10 per cent are in associate professor roles.
14 per cent of full professors at NUIG are women.
A draft report from the inquiry taskforce recommends mandatory gender quotas to promote female academics at NUIG.
The report also recommends that all committees and working groups at the university should have a minimum of 40 per cent of women by the end of this year and half of the chairs of these committees should be women by the end of 2018.
Speaking in relation to the draft report, Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington says that the policy of gender quotas should be for all staff and not just academics.
She is also calling for quotas on the number of people appointed from outside of the university.
Professor Jane Grimson who’s the head of the equality taskforce – denies that it’s just a PR exercise.
In a statement, NUI Galway says it welcomes the draft report, which contains 23 evidence-based recommendations.
NUIG recently appointed Professor Anne Scott as Vice-President for Equality and Diversity, the first apppointment of its kind at an Irish university.
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