Announcing the 25th Annual Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business List
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fortune announced the 2022 edition of the Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list—the most competitive installment of the MPW list to date. As Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell writes in the foreword of the October/November 2022 issue of Fortune: "In 1998, when Fortune published its first list of the Most Powerful Women in Business, only two women ran Fortune 500 companies…We have come a long way since 1998, as this year's MPW list—our 25th—vividly reminds us. For starters, 46 women currently occupy Fortune 500 corner offices. And that quantum leap in representation has affected our selection process: Women who aren't CEOs, and aren't widely expected to become one, were unlikely to crack this year's roster." Read more here.
- As Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell writes in the foreword of the October/November 2022 issue of Fortune : "In 1998, when Fortune published its first list of the Most Powerful Women in Business, only two women ran Fortune 500 companiesWe have come a long way since 1998, as this year's MPW listour 25thvividly reminds us.
- The 2022 Fortune MPW list includes 51 businesswomen, six of whom are newcomers to the ranking.
- The Top 10 of the 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business:
Atop the 2022 MPW list is Karen Lynch, President and CEO of CVS Health, the highest-ranking Fortune 500TM and Fortune Global 500TM company ever to be led by a woman. - CVS Health ranked 4th on the Fortune 500 list and 10th on the Global 500 list in 2022.