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        "summary": "The marketplace also asks member insurers and brokers to collect staff ethnicity data from this year to help Lloyd's keep track of diversity progress.",
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        "summary": "Nearly half of LGBTQ+ Americans feel discriminated against by their employer. Here's how insurance-industry HR leaders can change that.",
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        "title": "The benefits and challenges of insurance DE&I initiatives",
        "summary": "IICF provides the latest opportunity for insurance professionals to elevate their diversity work during its upcoming International Inclusion in Insurance Forum.",
        "byline": "Elana Ashanti Jefferson",
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        "uri": "/2021/06/01/making-di-part-of-your-core-business-will-dictate-future-success/",
        "title": "Making D&I part of your core business will dictate future success",
        "summary": "It's time to harness the insurance industry's energy and enthusiasm around diversity and inclusion to implement real change.",
        "byline": "Scott Purviance",
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        "title": "Is diversity the next big D&O risk?",
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        "byline": "Kate Lyes",
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        "title": "Simple steps to achieve inclusion and diversity excellence",
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        "byline": "Joel Philo",
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        "summary": "The P&C insurance industry is squarely in the middle of recent work to improve workplace equity and inclusion.",
        "byline": "Elana Ashanti Jefferson",
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        "title": "Disability disconnect: Disabled workers lack equity in the workplace",
        "summary": "As the insurance industry strives for greater diversity and inclusion, a new survey finds a big engagement gap with disabled workers.",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
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        "summary": "Insurance-industry leaders point out that the reasons for fostering diversity and inclusion go beyond humanitarianism.",
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