BusinessNov 6, 2023
CEO Diversity at the Top 50 Fortune 500 Companies 🇺🇸
What we’re showing
This graphic provides insight into CEO diversity at the top 50 Fortune 500 companies.
Key takeaway
Since 2000, America's 50 largest corporations have seen an increase in diversity at the CEO level. That said, white males still hold the chief executive role in two-thirds of the companies in this dataset.
Dataset
| Race | 2000 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| White male | 47 | 37 |
| White female | 1 | 6 |
| Black male | 1 | 1 |
| Black female | 0 | 1 |
| South Asian male | 0 | 3 |
| South Asian female | 0 | 0 |
| Latino male | 0 | 1 |
| Latina female | 0 | 1 |
| Middle Eastern male | 1 | 0 |
Data sources
CEO ethnicity data was obtained via Qualtrics. Note: Rosalinda Brewer stepped down as CEO in Sept. 2023, just a few months after the Fortune 500 2023 list was published.
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