Why did we put up with it? Aviva’s Jan Gooding on her early days in advertising

Jan Gooding has long been a champion for gender equality in business and a supporter of more inclusive working environments. Throughout her career she has fought to change out-of-date strategies and empower those who feel oppressed, whether it’s by writing one agency’s first maternity leave policy, through her role as chair of LGBT charity Stonewall, or through her most recent appointment as Aviva’s global inclusion director.
Despite becoming the first woman to get to board lev