Women lead
18 of the 500 companies, including Hewlett-Packard (10th) run by Meg
Whitman and IBM (19th) run by Ginni Rometty, both of whom started within
the last year.
Other executives to have
shattered the glass ceiling include Patricia Woertz of agricultural
processors Archer Daniels Midland; Indra Nooyi who is CEO of Pepsico,
Irene Rosenfeld who heads up Kraft Foods; Ursula Burns who is CEO at
Xerox and Sherilyn McCoy at Avon.
Rometty is IBM's first
female CEO and Xerox chief Ursula Burns is the first African-American
woman to head a Fortune 500 company. The top five female CEOs on the
list all held positions in strategic planning before being appointed.
There are an additional 21 female CEOs in the Fortune 501-1000, some managing steel, oil and energy companies.
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