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		</div><p>White men are now an &#8220;endangered species&#8221; in top business jobs as women and ethnic minorities are promoted to the senior positions, Tesco&#8217;s chairman has noted</p>
<p>John Allan said there has been a shift away from white men after millennia of bias in their favour &#8211; despite the group overwhelmingly holding the top positions.</p>
<p>Mr Allan later said the comments, made the day after International Women&#8217;s Day, were &#8220;humorous&#8221; and a &#8220;rather colourful turn of speech&#8221; used to encourage an audience of budding business people.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Retail Week Live conference on Thursday, he said: <i>&#8220;If you are female and from an ethnic background and preferably both then you are in an extremely propitious period.</p>
<p>&#8220;For a thousand years men have got most of these jobs, the pendulum has swung very significantly the other way now and will do for the foreseeable future I think.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you are a white male &#8211; tough &#8211; you are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Three of Tesco&#8217;s top team are women and eight are men.</p>
<p>Women are still poorly represented on the boards of FTSE 100 companies.</p>
<p>Last year, Carolyn Fairbairn, the director-general of the CBI, said fewer than 10% of their executive directors are women and described the aim to raise this to 25% as &#8220;ambitious&#8221;.</p>
<p>More than half of the firms are also led by exclusively white executive boards, according a report published in November which found a disproportionately low level of diversity in UK boardrooms.</p>
<p>After the London event, Mr Allan told The Guardian: <i>&#8220;The context was (that) I was talking to a bunch of aspiring non-executive directors, many of whom were women, and I wanted to give them some encouragement and, therefore, I used that rather colourful turn of speech.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was intended to be humorous, a bit hyperbolic. Clearly, white men are not literally an endangered species but I was actually wanting to make the reverse point, which is that it is a great time for women and people of ethnic minorities who want to get on in business.&#8221;</i></p>
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