Equality is now in action with women as head honchos of various industries. Find out who are currently the most powerful women in 2015.
Fortune published a list of Most Powerful Women in stock market field, Sept. 10, 2015. It includes 27 female CEOs who are controlling over 1 trillion dollar worth of stocks, and an additional of 24 more women. According to FORTUNE, this year is their 18th annual list. So to celebrate that, they listed 51 women in all including Taylor Swift who ranked 51.
Wtop says that one of the bases of the list is the importance and size of the woman's business. Another one is on how healthy the direction of the business is. The last basis is how her field is influential to our culture and society.
At the top list is none other than General Motors' CEO, Mary Barra. Others might say that Barra's rise to the top was a quick one. But Immortal News revealed it's not and her travel with success started to push through after many years of hard work and dedication. In fact, she has considerably contributed to the growth of her career with diligence as her timeline of achievements shows:
- 1980 - at a tender age of 18 she entered General Motors (GM).
- 2008 - she held a variety of administrative and engineering positions and was promoted to VP of Global Manufacturing Engineering.
- 2009 - she received another promotion to VP of Global Human Resources.
- 2011 - she eventually became the Executive Vice President of Global Product Development.
- 2013 - The GM named her CEO after Dan Akerson's replacement.
Almost every year people tend to ask Fortune why there's always a need for an issue that's focused on the Most Powerful Women. Fortune answered this with these words: "Let's concede the obvious: For decades every issue of Fortune was a men's issue. These insightful and provocative stories reveal how power, leadership, ambition, and, yes, gender are playing in the heart of business today."
Here is the top 10 of Fortune's Most Powerful Women in 2015:
1. Mary Barra CEO of General Motors
2. Indra Nooyi CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo
3. Ginni Rometty CEO, Chairman and President of IBM
4. Marilyn Hewson, CEO, Chairman and President of Lockheed Martin
5. Ellen Kullman, CEO and Chairman of DuPont
6. Abigail Johnson, CEO and President of Fidelity Investments
7. Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard's Chairman, President and CEO
8. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
9. Irene Rosenfeld, Mondelez International's Chairman and CEO
10. Phoebe Novakovic, CEO and Chairman of General Dynamics
