Just 3% of top jobs held by women

ONLY 3% of executive directors at the UK’s top 350 companies are women, a study into boardroom equality revealed yesterday.

The survey by Co-operative Asset Management found women occupied 34 of the 970 executive director positions available across the firms.

More than 130 of the companies in the FTSE 350 Index do not have a single woman at board level, according to the research, which was commissioned by The Observer.