Review: Hilary Devey's Women at the Top... Until last night I had no idea that so few women in the work place make it as far as the boardroom. And this BBC2 programme, hosted by top business woman and millionaire Hilary Devey, set out to discover why. Hilary Devey. Click here to view. After all, we were told girls, now outshine boys academically at GCSE and also at A level and even university. And studies continually show that businesses can become more profitable by ensuring they have a gender balance. For example, companies which employ an equal number of men and women (but throughout the layers so at the top management levels rather than just the general workforce) enjoy greater profitability. This is because men and women bring different ideas to a business -- and combining both female and male brains has shown to consistently work best. Hilary, who runs a haulage and freight network company -- and a self-confessed business woman through and through -- drafted in a 'gender balancing consultant' who discovered most of the basic workforce in her warehouse was male, the middle management was a mixture but in the boardroom Hilary is the sole female. And some departments, such as marketing, were solely female. She wondered if she could get more women into her own boardroom if it would increase the profitability. No doubt it would do. But where this programme fell down was the fact that like it or not women don't seem to want