It will take up to 200 years for women to gain a fair share of power in Britain at the current rate of progress, the Equal Opportunities Commission says today in its annual report on the state of the cracks in the glass ceiling. Thirty years after the Sex Discrimination Act came into force, women make up only 11% of directors in FTSE 100 companies, 20% of MPs and 16% of local authority leaders. They provide 9% of the senior judiciary, 10% of police chiefs and 13% of national newspaper editors.

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