--- title: More Women CEOs on Fortune 500 List Than Ever description: But women only make up 4.8% of the list canonical: https://time.com/2818176/female-fortune-500-ceos/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-03T15:57:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:24.473Z og:title: There Are Now More Female Fortune 500 CEOs Than Ever og:description: But women only make up 4.8% of the list og:url: https://time.com/2818176/female-fortune-500-ceos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd39f5e11a838b5db/6986960c810bbb532bc92012/mary-barra-fortune-500.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1404 og:image:height: 790 og:image:alt: Mary Barra og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There Are Now More Female Fortune 500 CEOs Than Ever twitter:description: But women only make up 4.8% of the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd39f5e11a838b5db/6986960c810bbb532bc92012/mary-barra-fortune-500.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # There Are Now More Female Fortune 500 CEOs Than Ever > Sponsored content. 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Mark Lennihan—AP  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jun 3, 2014 3:57 PM UTC There are now 24 female CEOs on the [_Fortune_ 500 list](http://fortune.com/2014/06/03/number-of-fortune-500-women-ceos-reaches-historic-high/?xid=timearticle), the most in the history of the annual ranking. The most prominent addition to the list is Mary Barra, who became the first female executive of a major automotive company when she was appointed CEO of General Motors earlier this year. Marissa Meyer, chief executive of Yahoo, did not make the cut — the tech company is not part of the _Fortune_ 500 for the first time in nine years. Unfortunately, even though there are more women than ever heading up large companies, they still only make up 4.8% of the list. Here’s all the women who made the cut: 1\. Mary Barra – General Motors 2\. Margaret Whitman – Hewlett-Packard 3\. Virginia Rometty – International Business Machines 4\. Patricia Woertz – Archer Daniels Midland 5\. Indra Nooyi – Pepsi Co 6\. Marillyn Hewson – Lockheed Martin 7\. Ellen Kullman – DuPont 8\. Irene Rosenfeld – Mondelez International 9\. Phebe Novakovic – General Dynamics 10\. Carol Meyrowitz – TJX 11 Lynn Good – Duke Energy 12\. Ursula Burns – Xerox 13\. Deanna Mulligan – Guardian Line Ins. Co. of America 14\. Kimberly Bowers – CST Brands 15\. Debra Reed – Sempra Energy 16\. Barbara Rentler – Ross Stores 17\. Sherylin McCoy – Avon Products 18\. Denise Morrison – Campbell Soup 19\. Susan Cameron – Reynolds American 20\. Heather Bresch – Mylan 21\. Ilene Gordon – Ingredion 22\. Jacqueline Himan – CH2M Hill 23\. Kathleen Mazzarella – Graybar Electric 24\. 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