Schools face job equality review after woman’s case

RULES for interviewing primary school job applicants may be reviewed after a record award to a female teacher for gender discrimination by her school.

St Anthony’s Boys School in Kilcoole, Co Wicklow, was recently ordered to pay €127,000 to Margaret McGinn over a 2001 interview for the principal’s job.

The Equality Tribunal heard that interviewers asked whether a female principal in a boys’ school would pose a problem.