Blog: Diversity in insurance - how far have we come?

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The 2019 Gay Pride march brought central London’s streets to a colourful standstill recently, and it was a reminder how much progress we have made towards becoming a society at ease with diversity of all forms writes Sharon Bishop, CEO of Close Brothers Premium Finance.

This year’s event also marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, when the gay rights movement was born. 

Diversity is very much a ‘topic for today’ in our own industry. To date

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Claims Apprentice champion reveals women who inspire her

To mark the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, which is #InspireInclusion, Safa Saeed, claims handler at Zurich and 2023 winner of Insurance Post’s Claims Apprentice competition, shares the role models who helped guide and inspire her career so far.

Insurance chiefs who smashed ceilings now walk on broken glass

Editor’s View: On International Women’s Day, Emma Ann Hughes argues the insurance industry needs to battle against ‘diversity fatigue’ and acknowledge the fight for inclusivity must continue until barriers to women’s career progression and equal pay are broken.

Why more men should join insurance’s inclusivity circus

Ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March), Cecile Fresneau, managing director of QBE’s insurance division, explains why we should stop talking about women spinning plates and get more men to take parental leave and become part of the childcare juggling act.

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