[Perndog]

Or because they don't want them. Ever think of that one? Sort of like gender-based affirmative action in colleges, where some schools need to put the same money into men's and women's athletics or have the same number of teams for each gender, even if four times more men are athletes than women. They weren't conditioned to not be athletes - they just don't want to! It could be the same thing in this case, though I don't know any corporate businesswomen (or businessmen, for that matter) and I've never been to England, so I can't say it's a familiar topic to me.