Only three top City firms led by women

Burberry’s Angela Ahrendts is one of just three women to head FTSE 100 Index companies along with easyJet’s Carolyn McCall and Alison Cooper at Imperial Tobacco.

That number could be temporarily boosted later this year with the increasing likelihood that Royal Mail – headed by chief executive Moya Greene – will join the top tier in the December reshuffle, after its storming stock market debut.