22 JANUARY 1994, Page 21

Directors' outing

ONE FORM of employment growing expo- nentially is non-executive directing. The Bank, which set up a non-execs' employ- ment agency pro bono publico, has actually managed to sell it for money. From Ameri- ca, once more, comes the sign of things to come. There the Cracker Barrel Old Coun- try Store Company is in trouble for having a heterosexual board. At the next general meeting, a teachers' pension fund will back a resolution, demanding that the board should have a diversity of members to reflect the varied races, gender and sexual orientation of shareholders. Any volunteers here? Will the City have an outing? British boardrooms have scarcely adjusted to statu- tory women, but I look forward to meeting the first non-executive lesbian.