The sight of a woman in the British boardroom is rare enough; that of one in the managing director's chair [is] almost as exotic as a pair of nesting ospreys." These words were written by the late Carol Kennedy in a March 1984 article for Director.
Back then figures were hard to come by and Kennedy was forced to guess at the percentage of women who reached director level, estimating two per cent of Britain's 250,000 directors.
Today, according to Val Singh, co-author of the Female FTSE-100 report: "The number of top FTSE-100 companies with more than one female director has gone from 12 in 2000 to 29 in 2006—moving beyond tokenism." Yet Singh believes the lack of women getting to executive directorships is still a "serious issue".
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