Quotas for women ‘inevitable’ say female business heads

Two thirds say nothing has changed since Lord Davies report.

There has been slow progress in efforts to increase the number of women in boardrooms and quotas may be the only way to remedy the situation, according to the heads of female business networks at top UK companies.

Leadership consultancy White Water Group surveyed the leaders of 30 such networks, representing 10,000 women in leading private sector firms. Two-thirds of them (67 per cent) did not feel that opportunities for women have improved in their organisation in the year since Lord Davies published his report into the subject. The same two-thirds felt that compulsory quotas were the only way to achieve Lord Davies’ target of 25 per cent women on FTSE boards by 2015.

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