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How many other female CEOs can you name? And how many of those are portrayed negatively even infrequently or regularly bashed in comments?

Mary Barra made $22.6 million, more than all the male auto CEOs. I haven't really ever seen much bashing of her personally.

Elizabeth Holmes was a media love story until it all came crashing down, although she was a founder/CEO.

Agree about the cesspools though.

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Lisa Su of AMD is another female CEO I can think of. I don't think I've seen anyone bash her. I mean she is extraordinarily competent and has 3 degrees in EE to boot.

Jessica Alba to add another. It's so easy to not be taken seriously but her Honest company is now valued at $1 billion.

the "has agreed to pay out $1.55 million in a class action lawsuit settlement for lying to customers about a chemical they claimed was absent from their products" Honest company?

Here's a list of about 30 female CEOs of S&P 500 companies. Most are not generally familiar names.

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-sp-500

Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard is another female CEO (and before her, Carly Fiorina). Both have certainly come in for their share of criticism. So would I, if I had to be responsible for HP.

>> How many other female CEOs can you name? And how many of those are portrayed negatively even infrequently or regularly bashed in comments?

Carly Fiorina, ex-HP CEO

Ginny Rometty takes heat pretty regularly, but is basically successful.

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