Top jobs have to change so that women, and men, can get a life

The proposal was always going to be crazy but what makes it insulting is its timing, writes Victoria White.

The commitment by Mary Mitchell O’Connor, the minister of state at the Department of Education with special responsibility for higher education, to create 45 women-only professorships in our third level institutions at the cost of €6m per annum comes when these institutions are struggling for their lives.