Gender Pay Gap

Gender Pay Gap Report 2024

The Gender Pay Gap Report 2024 for Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway in 2024, analyses the key issues which drive the GPG and establishing existing initiatives and further plans to address the gap. Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway is committed to the progression of gender equality and recognises that the GPG is one aspect of our efforts to address the gendered nature of inequality for staff at the University.

Accordingly, the University’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025 explicitly states that we are committed to significantly reducing the GPG and in this regard the University of Galway has been calculating and reporting the gender pay gap since 2019 with baseline data from 2018, well ahead of the current legislative requirement to do so.

As shown in the figure below, the GPG data indicates a modest improvement in the GPG in our university over this period from 20% mean GPG in 2018 to 15.9% in 2024 albeit not always linear year on year.

The positive impact of existing measures (promotion, recruitment, career development) is evident in the increase of the proportion of women in senior academic grades and in is turn slowly reducing the GPG. It is acknowledged that this is a long-term process, and the strategic objective of significantly reducing the pay gap must remain a constant focus. In that respect, the adoption of targeted measures to achieve the desired outcome will be implemented in accordance with the Positive Action policy.