【Sedan Sex (2018)】
Here's a milestone for the Fortune 500: more women CEOs than ever lead top companies in the United States.
Of the 500 companies that make up Fortune's annual ranking for 2017,Sedan Sex (2018) released Wednesday, 32 have women CEOs. That's up from 21 in 2016, which was a drop-off from years' past.
Of course, it's still not that many—6.4 percent of the top companies' leaders, to be precise. Fortune started tracking America's top 500 companies in 1955.
The ranking is of the top companies in America by size as measured by revenue. The list spans industries with names like Apple, Walmart, and AT&T alongside energy companies and insurance companies you've probably never heard of.
The top company on the list led by a woman is General Motors, with CEO Mary Barra, at No. 8. GM is the only company in the top 10—or 20, or 30—with a woman at the helm.
Of the 32 women CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies, only two are women of color: Indra Nooyi at Pepsi and Geisha Williams at PG&E. No black women are among the Fortune 500 CEOs this year. (Ursula Burns at Xerox had made the list after she took over in 2009, but Burns stepped down as CEO in December and Xerox split into two companies in January.)
HP, IBM, and Yahoo are the only Fortune 500 tech companies with women in charge. Marissa Mayer just made the cut, with Yahoo at No. 498 on this year's list.
SEE ALSO: This groundbreaking news station in Afghanistan is for women, by womenHere are all the companies with female CEOs on the list and their Fortune ranking:
General Motors, Mary Barra, No. 8
IBM, Ginni Rometty, No. 32
PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, No. 44
Lockheed Martin, Marillyn Hewson, No. 56
HP, Meg Whitman, No. 59
Oracle, Safra Catz, No. 81
General Dynamics, Phebe Novakovic, No. 90
Mondelez International, Irene Rosenfeld, No. 109
Progressive, Tricia Griffith, No. 120
Duke Energy, Lynn Good, No. 121
Staples, Shira Goodman, No. 140
PG&E Corp., Geisha Williams, No. 157
Synchrony Financial, Margaret Keane, No. 185
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Deanna Mulligan, No. 218
Ross Stores, Barbara Rentler, No. 219
Reynolds American, Debra Crew, No. 223
Reinsurance Group of America, Anna Manning, No. 246
Occidental Petroleum, Vicki Hollub, No. 278
Sempra Energy, Debra Reed, No. 280
Hertz Global Holdings, Kathryn Marinello, No. 296
CST Brands, Kim Lubel, No. 306
Veritiv, Mary Laschinger, No. 331
Campbell Soup, Denise Morrison, No. 339
Hershey, Michele Buck, No. 369
CMS Energy, Patricia Poppe, No. 419
Graybar Electric, Kathy Mazzarella, No. 420
Avon Products, Sheri McCoy, No. 444
Ingredion, Ilene Gordon, No. 456
Mattel, Margo Georgiadis, No. 474
KeyCorp, Beth Mooney, No. 479
CH2M Hill, Jacqueline Hinman, No. 494
Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, No. 498
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