Audrey Williams, head of discrimination law at Eversheds said: “Inevitably any attempt to legislate at EU level will face stiff opposition. Years of argument and debate are inevitable as any draft Directive wends its way through the EU’s legislative process. Despite the fact that any EU-scale change is some distance away, business leaders cannot afford to be complacent and demonstrating real progress through voluntary means and identifying what measure short of quotas have worked are key to resisting new laws to address the issue. “