Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business – Progress?
In November 2009, FORTUNE magazine unveiled their annual 50 Most Powerful Women list.
Their headline: “In 1998 when the Most Powerful Women in Business list premiered, just two of our honorees ran Fortune 500 companies. This year 13 do.”
So let’s do the numbers: in a decade’s time, an increase of nearly 600% which means that women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies went from representing .4% of CEOs to 2.6%.
Bottom line: we’ve got a long way to go.
No wonder the French Parliament is contemplating requiring that 50% of all corporate boards be composed of women within the next five years. Can companies get there without requiring government intervention?
And to take it one important step further: when it comes to women of color among the Top 50 women, they can be counted on one hand…
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