Women are STILL missing out on the UK’s top jobs, equality campaigners say 

Women are STILL missing out on the UK’s top jobs despite efforts to close the gender gap in industry, equality campaigners say

  • Women make up one in 20 chief executives in the leading FTSE 100 companies
  • Thirty-nine per cent of secondary school head teachers are women, say figures
  • Fawcett Society chief says society is ‘generations away’ from achieving equality
  • There was also an ‘alarming’ lack of non-white women across top jobs 

Women are still missing out on the top jobs across a whole range of industries and professions, campaigners say.

The Fawcett Society called for a ‘step change’ to boost the number in senior roles in sports, education, politics and business.

A survey by the gender equality charity found women make up just one in 20 chief executives in the leading FTSE 100 companies and a third of civil service permanent secretaries.

Women (stock image) make up one in 20 chief executive positions in the leading FTSE 100 companies, campaigners say. The figure is just another example of how ‘we are still generations away from achieving anything close to equality’, according to The Fawcett Society’s chief executive

In education they make up 39 per cent of secondary school head teachers and 30 per cent of university vice-chancellors.

Just 21 per cent of national sport governing body chiefs are women, while in politics 34 per cent of MPs are women and 27 per cent are peers.

Just 39 per cent of secondary school head teachers (file image) are female, while the gender discrepancy in national sport governing body chiefs is more stark - with figures showing a mere 21 per cent have this job

Just 39 per cent of secondary school head teachers (file image) are female, while the gender discrepancy in national sport governing body chiefs is more stark – with figures showing a mere 21 per cent have this job

In many cases, numbers had not improved on a year before.The study also found there was an ‘alarming’ lack of non-white women across top jobs.

The society’s chief executive Sam Smethers said: ‘Despite much lip service about the importance of having women in top jobs, today’s data shows we are still generations away from achieving anything close to equality. We are wasting women’s talent and skills.’

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