Companies whose boards include women outperform their all-male competitors in ROI by 26 percent, according to a 2011 Catalyst study. But women only hold 12.5 percent of the board seats at insurers and reinsurers, according to a study released this month by Saint Joseph’s University Academy of Risk Management and Insurance.

Here’s the story of how three women found seats on the Farmers Insurance Exchanges Boards of Governors for Farmers Insurance, as described at a panel discussion at the IICF Women in Insurance Global Conference.

The women couldn’t be more diverse: Gisselle Acevedo spent her career working on Latina issues for for-profit and non-profit West Coast organizations; Gail Jackson is a practicing ob/gyn affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles; and most of Dale Marlin’s 30-year career was spent with IBM Corp.

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