“We lose out when we lose these very capable women.”
Next week, The Salty Adjuster welcomes Amy Diehl, Ph.D., for a two-part conversation about the state of women working in insurance, including some difficult, candid dialogues about credibility, opportunity, safety, and whose voices get heard.
Amy is an award-winning technology executive, chief information officer at Wilson College, and gender equity researcher with 17 years devoted to studying the barriers women face. She is the co-author of Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work, and her writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine.
In this trailer for Part 1, Amy joins Salty and Producer Brett to unpack the “credibility deficit”: the extra work women do to establish expertise their male colleagues are often assumed to have. For women in claims, that can mean more questions, more explanations, and more time defending decisions. When performance review season arrives, who accounts for that time? In the expanded episodes, part 1 and 2, we will address recent SA violence in the news, including the situation at Cornell. Trigger warnings will be applied; please listen with care.
Across both episodes, we explore the barriers that shape women’s careers, the personal cost of navigating them, and what colleagues and leaders can do to help. Some of these conversations are uncomfortable. They deserve space on the microphone.
We’re also taking the conversation beyond the show. The Salty Adjuster and CoVerse Communications are offering women’s safety webinars, along with a larger “State of Women Working” lunch-and-learn-style Zoom webinar in November. Everyone is welcome, including the colleagues, managers, and leaders who want to better understand women’s experiences and help improve them.
Listen to the trailer, look for both episodes next week, and stay tuned for webinar dates and registration details.