Women are CEOs of five utility companies in the S&P 500, including, from left, Lynn Good of Duke Energy; Patricia Poppe of CMS Energy and PG&E’s Geisha Williams.

Even though the number of female CEOs is up, that’s still only 7.4% of the Fortune 500 ranked businesses compiled annually by the magazine. Last year there were 33, which was up from 24 from 2018.

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images. Are female CEOs in their position due to “preferential treatment” and not merit, as those who attack DEI like to say?

One of around two dozen female CEOs of a Fortune 500 company, Land O’Lakes’ Beth Ford says she learned early in her career to watch and learn from the behavior of “folks who are excellent at ...

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Editorial Note: It's been pointed out that there aren't any female CEOs on this list. To be clear, this is a sub-list pulled from our ranking of America's Most Promising Companies, which was ...

Meanwhile, Pew Research data from 2023 reported that more than 10% of Fortune 500 companies had female CEOs, and in 2021 only 76% of CEOs were white, according to Zippia.

Of the 500 businesses that claim spots on the ranking of the largest U.S. companies by revenue, female CEOs lead 55 of them. After two years at 10.4%, 11% is a slight increase.

The data, which cover 95 women and almost 1,500 men, also indicated that female CEOs were slightly more likely to have been forced out than their male counterparts, according to Daniel Schauber ...

Yes, the numbers are so low that individual departures move the needle. The glory days for female CEOs came back in 2017, when there were 27 CEOs, a less-than-impressive peak.

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