Highest paid female directors in the FTSE 100

This year's survey found that Dame Marjorie Scardino (right), the boss of Pearson, was the best paid woman in the FTSE 100 for the third year in a row Scardino - who shook up Pearson during her 11 years at the helm - doubled her take total home pay to £4,166,523, less than the top 20 best paid male executives. Also pictured is Rona Fairhead, finance director of Pearson, who also made the list with earnings of £1,934,775. Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

Anglo American's Cynthia Carroll, who earned £2.7m. She is the first woman to head the company and the first chief executive from outside the business when she joined at the end of 2006. Photograph: PR

Friday: It was announced that the Canadian-born chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse, was being replaced by a former Lehman Brothers banker Photograph: Sherwin Crasto/AP

Terri Dial, otherwise known as the ‘human cyclone’, ran the retail arm of Lloyds TSB until March this year. The 58-year old Californian began her career as a bank teller in the US and before coming to Britain was running the retail division of Wells Fargo. She joined Lloyds in 2005, last year earning £1,995,000, and is widely credited with helping to rejuvenate the bank’s high street presence. Photograph: Justin Williams/PR

The highest placed newcomer on the FTSE 100 list was Lucy Neville-Rolfe, who was the first female director appointed to the executive board of Tesco. She is executive director of corporate and legal affairs and has been at the supermarket for more than a decade. She claimed sixth place, just behind Pearson’s Fairhead, with £1,823,343. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA

Helen Weir, 44, a former McKinsey consultant, earned £1,586,000 as Lloyds finance director last year. She then replaced Terri Dial as chief of the bank’s retail arm after Dial quit to join Citigroup Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

Joanne Dawson, chief executive for insurance and investment at HBOS, had total earnings of £1,239,120. She’s also responsible for retail distribution at the bank, having previously worked at Natwest. Read more about the full survey here Photograph: PR

As chief executive of Drax, Dorothy Thompson has defended the company against critics over its coal-fired power stations. Her total package came to £612,000 last year Photograph: Rex/PR