Every year, Fortune publishes the Global 500, a list of the 500 largest companies in the world. Altogether, the combined sales of these businesses equal $31.7 trillion, or one-third of global GDP. And this year, the number of women running companies on the list soared by nine.

Thanks to those nine new entries, women are now running 23 of the companies on the Global 500.

Read more at: https://fortune.com/2021/08/02/female-ceos-global-500-fortune-500-cvs-karen-lynch-ping-an-jessica-tan/