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This is a list of women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2024 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Sept. 2024, women were CEOs at 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2024 (52 women)
She ultimately became sole owner of the Virginia City Water Company, becoming the first and only woman in Montana—and probably the nation's only female African American—to own a utility. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2012, the State of Montana honored her by inducting her into the Gallery of Outstanding Montanans.
Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent. [2] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it is 5 percent. [2] In 2024, 10.4% of the CEOs at companies in the Fortune 500 were female. [3]
In 2020, the number of female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies hit a new high, with 37 women holding the top spots at the 500 largest companies in America. Although that’s a new record, that still ...
The richest woman in the U.K. made $199 million last year, investors bet on volleyball as the next big thing in women's sports, and women kick off 2025 with a bang on the Fortune 500. - More than 10%.
Data analyzed from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed which cities had the largest percentage of female owned businesses. Check out the top ten performers here.
Although a bidding war broke out with competing bidder Matura, Wachner and Galef ultimately won the bid paying $46.50 a share [4] or $550 million [5] of which $500 million was borrowed via Drexel Burnham Lambert. [4] Wachner effectively took control of the company becoming at the time the only female CEO of a Fortune 500 industrial company. [4]
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