Last week I attended a really excellent conference in London called Opportunities For Women. It’s a career development event aimed at ‘bridgers’: talented mid-level women actively seeking a bridge upwards. (You can check out the Opportunities for Women site for the full list of speakers).

The conference covered a lot of ground, but one recurring theme was the challenge of getting women into the Board room. In Women on Boards 2011, a report from an enquiry headed by Lord Davies, there is a telling quote:

‘At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK’.

Think about it. 70 years. That’s an entire lifetime. [Read more…]