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Orianna Rosa Royle

Top insurance CEO announces that white male new hires must be personally signed off by herself

Amanda Blanc, CEO of insurance company Aviva (Credit: Lance McMillan—Toronto Star/Getty Images)

As businesses push forward on hitting diversity goals, a major insurance company in the U.K. is telling its 22,000 strong workforce that senior white male new hires must be personally approved by none other than the CEO. 

Aviva’s boss Amanda Blanc said the policy forms part of the company’s efforts to stamp out sexism in the financial services industry.

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