Inga Beale: ‘I started to behave like a man to fit in'
Lloyd's CEO Inga Beale has spoken of the challenges she faced working in the London insurance market in the 1980s at a gender equality festival in London today (11 March).
Speaking as part of a panel debate, titled "Bringing your whole self to work", at the Women of the World Festival Beale, who will have worked in the insurance industry for 34 years next week
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