Name: Introducing the 2021 Most Powerful Women list
Uploaded: 2021-10-03
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: These are the most important women in business.

These are the most important women in business.

Introducing the 2021 Most Powerful Women list

fortune's most powerful women list is a ranking of the most influential and important women in business. It ranks executives by doctors like the size of their business, their influence in the global economy and the trajectory and health of their business. We look at the arc of the career of the executive and we look at her social and cultural influence as well as a relatively new criteria for us, which is how she using her power. And it's not really important to us because business has changed so much in the priorities of business have changed that. It's very difficult for companies now to just be about the size and the revenue and the profits. Uh there's also the question of purpose. There's also the question of how you are helping your workers, How are you helping the communities that you operate in And you know, it felt very important to see that reflected on the list. I think what is interesting to me about the list is how many people at the top are relatively new in their job with five women in the top 10 who stepped into their current jobs during the pandemic. Karen lynch from CVS health jane fraser from city carol tomei ups roz brewer at Walgreens Boots alliance and the Underground Duckett at T I A So one of our newcomers on the list is jennifer salke, she's ahead of amazon studios and she really stood out to us because she is running this enormous budget. Amazon clearly is interested in taking on netflix and some of the other big streamers and she has been making some enormous moves during a year when the company as a whole has gotten even bigger and more power. What's interesting about this group is a couple of them really took a stand on some big social issues this year. Sure do be a match, for example, has been one of the only public company ceos to really speak out against the regressive abortion law in texas. NASDAQ Ceo Adena Friedman who's been leading that company since 2017 but joined the list this year after NASDAQ joined the Fortune 500 for the first time and after she one sec approval for a really groundbreaking for diversity proposal. The list represents 14 different industries, with tech and finance really being the dominant ones. I think the list really reflects how much progress women have made in corporate America. There are so many women at the top of companies and at the top of corporate America more broadly that just the breath of women across industries and the number of women in really powerful roles who don't make the list speaks to just how much has changed in the past 20 years. Mm