With Meg Whitman nabbing the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard–and the four women at the bottom of this list (below) new to the top job this year–America now has 15 female Fortune 500 CEOs.
Not a number to be proud of, but hey, it’s a record and it is progress nonetheless.
Here are the women at the helm–including the rank of their companies on the Fortune 500:
11 Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard
39 Pat Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland
42 Angela Braly, WellPoint
43 Indra Nooyi, Pepsico
49 Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
68 Lynn Elsenhans, Sunoco
84 Ellen Kullman, DuPont
119 Carol Meyrowitz, TJX
121 Ursula Burns, Xerox
221 Laura Sen, BJ’s Wholesale Club
226 Andrea Jung, Avon Products
245 Deanna Mulligan, Guardian Life Insurance (not publicly held)
274 Debra Reed, Sempra Energy
312 Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup
417 Beth Mooney, KeyCorp
As we send our 2011 Most Powerful Women list to press (a day late, as we scrambled yesterday to place Whitman in our rankings), the competition grows. Who will be No. 1? We’ll announce that and reveal the new MPW list next Thursday.
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