The diagram below captures what reports on both sides of the Atlantic have been saying for some years now - whilst women's participation in the workforce at entry levels, in larger companies at least, matches the broad division of the sexes in society at large the higher you go the worse it gets, until at the very highest levels you are looking at a Pareto advantage in favour of the male (which has to spell hegemony in any language)
My apologies that I didn't pick up this Forbes article when it first came out some time ago - but thanks to Garance Marechal of the University of Liverpool for alerting me to it recently.
Why qualified women don't make it to executive leadership
By way of atonement, here's a the link to the full report as a pdf.
The Sponsor Effect
Some other more up to date useful links from the same fecund source - the first somewhat pessimistic
Why we'll NEVER see gender equality in the workplace
Women aren't getting to the top. Why?
The No. 1 reason why women are not getting promoted
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