(Reuters) – Women now make up nearly 40% of the boards of Britain’s biggest 100 companies, compared with just 12.5% a decade ago, with recommendations in place to enable more female representation in top management, a government-backed report said on Tuesday. Researchers reviewed women’s representation in about 24,000 positions in firms on Britain’s blue-chip FTSE 100, mid-cap FTSE 250 and FTSE 350 indices. This puts Britain in second place globally, up from fifth in 2020 and just behind France which has a nearly 44% representation, according to the report. Homebuilder Taylor Wimpey this month…