After more than 40 years of the feminist movement, you'd think that women in the workplace wouldn't be much of a novelty. But the issue has taken on new life as the post-movement generations of Gen-Xs and Millennial women grapple with the challenges of work/life balance and career advancement in a workplace where the female-to-male wage gap is still 80 percent.

And guess what: Gender is still an issue in the insurance industry.

Turns out there are lots of women in the industry, but darn few in the upper echelons of companies smaller than the Fortune 500, said Susan Fleming, a professor at Cornell University who has served on the boards of five publicly traded insurers

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