Insight - Female CEOs become less rare in industrial sector

Top duo: Rumsey (left) and Linebarger She will be the first female CEO of truck engines company Cummins Inc. — Agencie

THE industrial sector is just a leadership shakeup away from having one of the highest rates of female chief executive officers (CEO) in the S&P 500.

Before you get too excited, the numbers are still small: There are 69 industrial companies on the benchmark index and as of the beginning of the year, four of them had female CEOs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.