Pride exposes prejudice LGBTQ+ individuals face in insurance
Editor’s View: LGBTQ+ network Link’s latest survey shows many insurance professionals still feel pressure to hide parts of themselves at work, which Emma Ann Hughes argues highlights the need for insurers to move beyond Pride branding and ‘pinkwashing’ to build actually inclusive cultures.
If insurance judged itself purely on inclusion policies, employee networks and rainbow logos during Pride month, the sector would probably conclude it has made enormous progress on LGBTQ+ inclusion
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