The University of Galway’s recent history on gender equality is well known and documented in Ireland, following the 2014 Equality Tribunal landmark decision that the University had discriminated against Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington in the academic promotion process. The background and context to this case will be explored in this chapter with particular emphasis on the strategy and activism employed by Sheehy Skeffington in tandem with key feminist actors within the University in addressing cases of discrimination through the legal system. The approach employed in raising awareness and mobilising staff was informed by activist tactics akin to a social movement, albeit waged within an institutional context. The institutional response was two-fold in terms of firstly accepting the necessity of addressing gender inequality while simultaneously displaying a dogged resistance to addressing the obvious discrimination and injustice experienced by more women in the academic promotions process. The chapter also considers the impact and influence of this development within the wider higher education landscape in Ireland in terms of policy specificity. Notwithstanding the limitations in terms of progressing gender equality in higher education, the slow pace of change and reliance on liberal interventions in some instances, it is argued that the necessity of cultivating an explicitly political feminist standpoint can add value to current dimensions.