EU Funding Gender Programs and Curriculum (1980-2000)

Civil Service study on Gender Equality

Supporting Dep. of Equality and Law Reform

£20k available to all women's programs annually

Equality set as one of main aims of education policy

HEA Chairperson + Secretary of Education Dep. promote affirmative action

Most state structures report gender profiles

First woman professor appointed

Deans required to identify Gender goals

Clarified basis for senior post allocations

Gender awareness workshops required for Interview Boards

University gender targets set to evaluate line management

Presidents requests briefing from Director of Women's Studies

Career development opportunities proactively provided to women

Deans required to develop strategy to change organisational culture

Universities Act 1997 passed

Annual Gender Reviews required

Universities required to promote gender balance

Equal Opportunity and Promotion Policies enacted

Uni presidents required to prepare gender policies

HEA given gender advisory and review legislated role

Dep. of Equality & Law Reform absorbed into Department of Justice

4 of 11 strategies presented by Director of Women's Studies actioned

Employment Equality Act passed

Equal Opportunity Committee established

Gender Awareness Workshops run for Senior Management

Search processes to encourage female applicants introduced

EU Co-funds Uni Creche

Equality Authority given statutory basis

First women Dean appointed

National Development Plan (2000-06)

Male privilege publicly challenged raising resistance

Atlantic Philanthropy awards €1.4m to gender initiatives

Women's Forum established

Equal Opportunity Manager funded

Women's Development Program established

HEA stop publishing gender breakdown of academic staff (2004-2012)

Equal Opportunity Committee Disbanded

National Development Plan (2007-13)

Science Foundation Ireland gender audit Science & Technology faculty

State and HEA ignore gender budgeting and gender contract compliance

Uni President supports European Union 7

Uni aligned with Female Empowerment in Science and Tech in Academia (FESTA)

Hunt Report 2011 makes no reference to gender

Gender reporting removed from Uni Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Access and Equality Committee dissolved

HEA begins collecting gender data again

EU FESTA Gender Program adopted and funded

Universities Act Amendment Bill (2012) passed

OECD make influential international policy statements

EU publish influential international policy statements on Gender

Atlantic Philanthropy funds 7 Professorial Chairs in Science and Technology