Despite their protestations to the contrary, it’s still a man’s world

Values are lived and demonstrable in the lives of those living them, writes Terry Prone.

The topic was that old but ever-fresh chestnut: Women excluded from directorships and top jobs. One of the speakers was a man who’s been successful in his job for almost half a century. Who was baffled by the topic. Just plain baffled, he was.

In all his working life, he told those present, he could — hand on Bible — swear that at no point had his team ever got together to exclude a woman from promotion to their ranks. Having delivered himself of this credible statement, he sat back, happy out. Argument closed.