Nearly one in seven HR decision-makers rate men as better for top jobs and nearly one in five admitted they were reluctant to hire women they thought might go on to start families, the survey found.
It is shocking that HR managers still believe that men are better suited to senior management than women, said Alesha De-Freitas, the head of policy at the Fawcett Society, who said the figures showed businesses were systematically and illegally discriminating against women.
We know it's hard for young women to get the jobs that they want because of barriers such as a lack of flexible working and affordable childcare, but then when they do enter the workplace, discrimination and a lack of support to progress creates this broken rung on the career ladder, she said.
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