A Government taskforce is being launched today to examine a gender gap in our colleges and universities.

It follows a Higher Education Authority report which confirms we have a persistent problem with a lack of women in top academic positions.

Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor says it’s discrimination, and she’s determined to end it.

She said: “The message to the higher education institutes is that there is no where to hide and that gender inequality which is alive and well in our education institutes, will be eradicated.”