The exterior of The Spheres is seen at the Amazon.com Inc headquarters. An oft-heard refrain details a version of the same reality from women who’ve left the company: They can build long, lucrative careers at Amazon but, for many, their ceiling ends up being lower than their male counterparts. This is not an uncommon realisation among women in the tech industry. — Getty Images/The New York Times
When our Fortune 500 issue dropped earlier this month, I was thrilled to read many inspiring tales of business success and innovation chronicled by my colleagues. But another fact also caught my attention – just 52 or 10.4%, of the 500 largest US companies by revenue are run by women.
While that’s eight more companies than two years earlier in 2022, it’s exactly the same as the 52 women-led Fortune 500 companies on last year’s 2023 list. A couple of steps forward, and then one year standing in place.
