Ireland: Female-only university posts set to be challenged in courts

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2018-11-12 21:55

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Government is braced for legal challenges to its plan to fund women-only posts in universities.

But a solicitor who specialises in employment law has said the plan would likely stand up to any challenge under equality legislation.

"There may be an equality issue there. But they are allowed to have a bias towards female roles if there is specific policy there," said Claire McDermott, of the Flynn O'Driscoll law firm.'

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. . . the hypocritical politicians pledge to do nothing about the disproportionate enrollment rates in favor of female students, and of course they will never do anything to address the gender imbalance in all of the not-so-glamorous jobs that men overwhelmingly do (i.e. construction, manual labor, trash collection, etc.) . . .

SSDD

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2018-11-14 00:54