Women Agents Breaking Glass Ceiling

Hard work and opportunity have helped women establish themselvesin the upper levels of the independent agency world and, femaleagency principals say, those who have made it are individuals whodont believe they should be treated any differently than men.

“Its no longer unusual and its no longer the exception to havewomen in top positions within the insurance agency ranks,” saidLouise Canter, senior vice president at Patterson-Smith Associatesin Falls Church, Va., who is the incoming vice president of theAlexandria, Va.-based Independent Insurance Agents of America.

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