Headlines are touting 2021 as a banner year for women’s leadership in corporate America.
CVS Health is now the highest-ranking business ever run by a woman CEO, Karen Lynch, and Jane Fraser of Citigroup is the very first woman to run a major Wall Street bank.
For the first time in history, two Fortune 500 companies have Black women at the helm— Roz Brewer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA.
And, the big picture: This year, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high of 41.
Forty-one out of 500 CEOs are women. That amounts to 8 …
