‘Blindspots’ revealed as UK’s top firms have women in just one in five commercial roles

Largest 350 listed firms ‘making glacial progress’ to remove barriers to women at work, says Pipeline gender parity study

Women hold just one in five commercial roles on the boards of Britain’s 350 largest listed companies, according to research that suggests firms have blind spots and operate at “various levels of consciousness” when it comes to senior female staff.

Many are failing to address important barriers that women face in the workplace, the report found, including operating a “woman tax”, whereby women are given additional tasks alongside their day jobs without placing the same expectation on their male peers.