Caroline Farberger, the chief executive of a Swedish insurance company, remembers how she conducted meetings when she was a man.
“I would unthinkingly turn to my favourites in the room, the ones I knew shared my views, and suddenly we were three people in agreement,” she said. “Then I’d glance at the others and ask if there were any other opinions, and of course there weren’t. I could just say ‘great we have a decision’ and move on.”
Farberger, 53, who in 2018 underwent a gender correction and this week published a book about it, says she sees now that as Carl — as she was then called — she just had “equality on paper.”
The head of ICA Forsakring AB, the insurance arm of Sweden’s grocery giant ICA, is the first business chief in Sweden — and perhaps among very few, if any, in the world — to go through a gender transition. She says it has given her…
