Insurers should not fear being called ‘woke’

A struggling woman with the burden of pulling a heavy female symbol falling behind a group of running businessmen or men as an unfair gender bias icon

Insurers shouldn’t fear accusations of virtue signalling when publicising their diversity policies due to the benefits it carries for employees, an audience heard.

At a panel discussing allyship at Zurich’s Women in Insurance Club Blue event in Birmingham, the audience heard from industry figures about to ensure that female and minority employees at insurance

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