Marillyn Hewson, President and CEO, Lockheed Martin
Today is Women’s Equality Day, marking the 94th anniversary of certification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920, which gave women the right to vote.
Now women serve as leaders in government and business. Twenty-four of America’s largest publically-traded companies are led by women, and that number continues to grow.
Catalyst, a non-profit working to expand opportunities for women in business, has a complete list of women-led companies on the Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000. Below are the women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (rank in parenthesis):
- Mary Barra, GM (7)
- Meg Whitman, HP (17)
- Virginia Rometty, IBM (23)
- Patricia Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) (27)
- Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo, Inc. (43)
- Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (59)
- Ellen Kullman, DuPont (86)
- Irene Rosenfeld, Mondelez International (89)
- Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics (99)
- Carol Meyrowitz, The TJX Companies, Inc. (108)
- Lynn Good, Duke Energy (123)
- Ursula Burns, Xerox Corporation (137)
- Deanna Mulligan, Guardian (245)
- Kimberly Bowers, CST Brands (266)
- Debra Reed, Sempra Energy (267)
- Barbara Rentler, Ross Stores (277)
- Sheri McCoy, Avon Products Inc. (282)
- Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup (315)
- Susan Cameron, Reynolds American Inc. (329)
- Heather Bresch, Mylan (377)
- Ilene Gordon, Ingredion Incorporated (412)
- Jacqueline Hinman, CH2M Hill (437)
- Kathleen Mazzarella, Graybar Electric (449)
- Gracia Martore, Gannett (481)