MIC Equality Talks: Challenging the system: My gender equality battles in NUI Galway

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Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, lecturer in plant ecology, took early retirement from NUI Galway in 2014, joined us for our next Equality Talk to will discuss her case against NUI Galway and the campaign for promotion along with the subsequent cases by her colleagues

Her feminist grandparents, Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington, inspired her to take a gender equality case against NUI Galway to the Equality Tribunal in 2009. In preparing her case Dr Sheehy Skeffington realised that five other women who, like her, had been deemed suitable for promotion to Senior Lecturer by NUIG had also not received any promotion. After going public with her win at the Equality Tribunal in 2014, they decided to take their own cases and Dr Sheehy Skeffington supported them as part of a campaign to be granted promotion