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Here are the female CEO's of the fortune 500. Meg Whitman, HP (#10) Virginia Rometty, IBM (#19) Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) (#28

• _mulder_ 14y ago
  With image links so you can judge for yourself whether the conclusions of the article hold true or not. Personally I don't think so. Whilst I wouldn't describe any of these hugely succesful women as unattractive, I think they would compare to the attractiveness ratings of male CEOs (also a bit above average). Meg Whitman, HP (#10) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Meg+Whitman&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Meg+Whitman&tbm=isch Virginia Rometty, IBM (#19) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Virginia+Rometty&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Virginia+Rometty&tbm=i... Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) (#28) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Patricia+A+Woertz&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Patricia+A+Woertz&tbm=... Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo, Inc. (#41) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Indra+K+Nooyi&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Indra+K+Nooyi&tbm=isch Irene B. Rosenfeld, Mondelez International https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Irene+B+Rosenfeld&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Irene+B+Rosenfeld&tbm=... Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (#58) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marillyn+Hewson&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marillyn+Hewson&tbm=is... Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont (#72) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ellen+J+Kullman&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ellen+J+Kullman&tbm=is... Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics (#92) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Phebe+Novakovic&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Phebe+Novakovic&tbm=is... Carol M. Meyrowitz, The TJX Companies, Inc. (#125) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Carol+M+Meyrowitz&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Carol+M+Meyrowitz&tbm=... Ursula M. Burns, Xerox Corporation (#127) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ursula+M+Burns&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ursula+M+Burns&tbm=isc... Sheri S. McCoy, Avon Products Inc. (#234) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sheri+S+McCoy&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sheri+S+McCoy&tbm=isch Deanna M. Mulligan, Guardian (#250) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Deanna+M+Mulligan&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Deanna+M+Mulligan&tbm=... Debra L. Reed, Sempra Energy (#266) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Debra+L+Reed&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Debra+L+Reed&tbm=isch Denise M. Morrison, Campbell Soup (#334) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Denise+M+Morrison&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Denise+M+Morrison&tbm=... Ilene Gordon, Ingredion Incorproated (#390) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ilene+Gordon&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ilene+Gordon&tbm=isch Heather Bresch, Mylan (#396) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Heather+Bresch&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Heather+Bresch&tbm=isc... Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar Electric (#451) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kathleen+M+Mazzarella&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kathleen+M+Mazzarella&... Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter, Frontier Communications (#464) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Mary+Wilderotter&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Mary+Wilderotter&tbm=i... Gracia C. Martore, Gannett (#465) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gracia+C+Martore&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gracia+C+Martore&tbm=i... Marissa Mayer, Yahoo (#483) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marissa+Mayer&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marissa+Mayer&tbm=isch Beth E. Mooney, KeyCorp (#499) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Beth+E+Mooney&tbm=isch https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Beth+E+Mooney&tbm=isch
  • mnicole 14y ago
    As a whole, I think that's definitely a good-looking group of women.
    • VLM 14y ago
      The only way we're going to resolve this is some manner of blind comparison data gathering like the ancient "hotornot" dotcom from a decade or so ago, assuming the only people interested enough to provide data aren't already so interested in the topic that they recognize the CEOs on sight.
  • voidlogic 14y ago
    This does not prove anything. Even if fewer smart but less attractive females were hired due to the discrimination we would still expect to see intelligent women that did get hired, attractive or not, end up making it.
  • josephlord 14y ago
    Of course to test the theory the attractiveness should be judged based on their appearance at about age 22 and the judgement made by men 5-15 years older who were making the hiring judgements at the time.
• notatoad 14y ago
  >despite being low on this list Marissa Mayer is by far one of the most recognisable, probably because as an attractive woman it's a good brand for Yahoo Or it could be because she used to do PR for google (#73), and she's in our industry.
• dorkrawk 14y ago
  > Ironically despite being low on this list Marissa Mayer is by far one of the most recognisable, probably because as an attractive woman it's a good brand for Yahoo. Or publicly pulling a highly recognizable face from Google is really good for Yahoo!.