London — Britain’s biggest listed companies will miss an official gender equality target unless one in every two senior hires in the next year are women, according to a new study.

Many in the FTSE 100 index of top listed companies are “well adrift” of the goal that one in three senior jobs should be held by women by the end of next year, said the Hampton-Alexander Review, which analyses gender representation...

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