Soon after Inga Beale started working in the London insurance market in the early 1980s, sexist intimidation almost drove her to quit.
“I changed my behaviour to be like a man — that’s how I coped with it,” she recalls. “I would make sure I could drink 12 pints in The Lamb with the boys,
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