Meet the Record 18 Female CEOs on the Fortune 500

In her first year on the list, Ginni Rometty does very well
Posted Oct 30, 2011 8:10 AM CDT
Meet the Record 18 Female CEOs on the Fortune 500
In this Oct. 23, 2011 photo, Meg Whitman, (then) a republican candidate for Calif. Governor, campaigns at Saigon Kitchen, in San Jose, Calif.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

A record 18 female CEOs are included on the 2012 Fortune 500, CNNMoney reports. Eight of them made it into the top 100:

  • Meg Whitman: Hewlett-Packard, No. 11
  • Ginni Rometty: IBM, No. 18
  • Patricia Woertz: Archer Daniels Midland, No. 39

  • Angela Braly: WellPoint, No. 42
  • Indra Nooyi: PepsiCo, No. 43
  • Irene Rosenfeld: Kraft Foods, No. 49
  • Lynn Elsenhans: Sunoco, No. 68
  • Ellen Kullman: DuPont, No. 84
Click for all 18. (More Fortune 500 stories.)

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