Companies face intense pressure to hire more women in senior jobs. Despite this only 6pc of British CEOs are women.
Britain has the highest proportion of female bosses of all major European economies, coming ahead of Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Nevertheless, there are still very few women running companies.
Just 6pc of British businesses have a female chief executive or managing director, a Daily Telegraph analysis of S&P Capital IQ data has found.
That means barely one-in-20 bosses is a woman, even after major campaigns from businesses and politicians.
It also indicates progress has been no better at the top than at the bottom of Britain’s business hierarchy - just seven of the FTSE 100 chief executives are female.
France is close behind with 5.7pc of bosses being women, followed by Italy’s 3.7pc and...
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