Women are appearing in more positions of power than any time in history. We’ve got a female PM, female UKIP and Green Party leaders and a female presidential nominee.

But, apparently women are still not quite smashing the glass ceiling when it comes to their financial status – pay parity remains a distant dream.

According to a report published by the LSE, there are very few women amongst the richest people in the UK and other OECD countries.

While the proportion of women among the wealthiest 10% and 1% has risen since the 1990s, the report concludes that there seems to be “something of a glass ceiling for women” – the higher the income bracket, the less women there are in it – as numbers of women in the top 0.1% of earners were seen to have changed very little since the 1990s.

Women are a ‘distinct minority’ among the top UK earners