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3 Fortune 500 CEOs share the advice, lessons and skills that have shaped their success

By | Morgan Smith | www.cnbc.com

The number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500 rose to a record high this year — 44 — which still means that women run less than 10% of the largest corporations in the U.S. 

Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women have yet to achieve true equity with their male colleagues in the C-Suite: Only 21% of C-Suite leaders at U.S. companies are women, according to a September 2021 report from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co.

Research has pointed to hiring discrimination, unconscious bias and fewer promotional opportunities for women as some of the factors driving the gap. 

The women who are succeeding in the Fortune 500, however, have made commendable strides in representation: Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, is the first female leader of a major international automaker, for example, and Beth Ford, who began leading Land O’Lakes in 2018, is the first openly gay woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO.

CNBC Make It spoke with Ford and other Fortune 500 CEOs Roz Brewer and Kathy Warden about the best career advice they’ve ever received, their biggest career regrets, on-the-job lessons that have shaped their success and more.

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