The Blog Spot: Female insurance bosses wanted

Insurance needs to change its “pale, male and stale” image and allow more women into the boardrooms, writes Ida Axling.

This week marks one hundred years since women in the UK got the right to vote.

Thanks to my suffragette sisters paving the way for the rest of us we have come a long way in our quest for gender equality over the past hundred years. But we’re not quite there yet are we? Especially not in insurance.

I’m not denying that the gender balance within the insurance sector has significantly improved, however it is quite obvious that the industry has not come far enough.

Looking around the room at any