UK Boardrooms will take 73 years for gender

The business of attracting, appointing and retaining the best talent for our
corporate leadership has never been more critical. It is time we shed some of our
woolly, fuddy duddy and dangerous ideas.
Britain has one of the most deplorable ratios of women in boardrooms. While the
world has undergone transformational changes during the past 10 years UK’s
record of women in boardrooms has improved only niggardly by 5%.to 11.7%.
Meanwhile women’s representation as leaders of Norwegian business has risen from
6% to 44%. Rest of the Europe is moving equally fast. With the current rate of
change UK Boardrooms will take 73 years for gender balance.
Gender is not the only area where UK boardroom record is so poor. There are no
Black British female directors in FTSE 100 companies. There are only 8 ethnic
minority women directors in FTSE 100 companies.
It is In this context that Mr Miles Templeman’s resistance