To borrow from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, women in European business are born free but are almost everywhere in chains. Apart from Norway, and to a lesser extent Finland and Sweden, the route to most boardrooms is more open to male than female traffic.True, the picture is evolving. According to data published on Tuesday by the Professional Boards Forum, an international advisory service that wants more diversity on company boards, women now account for 14.9 per cent of directors at Britain’s largest 100 companies – the highest to date and up from 12.5 per cent in 2010. But if this is progress, a snail is a hare.
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