NU Online News Service, May 22, 10:46 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK–Women work in insurance underwriting and claims in huge numbers, but only a minute fraction are hired by insurers as directors or chief executives, according to data presented at a meeting here.
Seventy percent of the underwriters and 87 percent of the claims professionals are women, while only 16 percent of board of director seats and less than 1 percent of chief executive officers are women, according to a panelist at the Association of Professional Insurance Women's monthly luncheon gathering.
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