Dave beats the women

WOMEN bosses make up such a tiny portion of chief executives at top firms in the UK that they are even outnumbered by men named ‘‘Dave’’.

A survey revealed there are just six female chief executives in the FTSE100 – Britain’s biggest companies by value on the London Stock Exchange.

Eight of the firms are run by men called Dave or David, including supermarket bosses Dave Lewis at Tesco and David Potts at Morrisons.

There was just one female boss in the top half of the table – Alison Cooper, who runs tobacco firm Imperial Brands.