Ms Lambert, who represents the Green Party, said boardroom quotas had worked elsewhere and were a good starting point in the struggle against discrimination in the workplace.

Speaking just days after ‘Equal Pay Day’ – the point in the year when the average woman has earned as much as the average man earns by the end of the year – the Green Party MEP said the attitude of the Women and Equalities Minister was ‘typical of the Tories’.

Commenting ahead of a keynote speech in which Ms Miller is expected to explain why the UK Government played a key role in forcing the European Commission to abandon plans to bring about a binding rule that 40% of top jobs should be held by women, Ms Lambert said:

“For Maria Miller to suggest that boardroom quotas are in some way patronising to women is typical of the Tory attitude to gender equality: ‘unless we can do everything we’ll do nothing’.

“Quotas in boardrooms aren’t the only answer to the workplace inequality faced by women, but they are concrete and achievable – and not a bad place to begin!”

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