WOMEN IN THE top ranks of business have broken three important records of late. The number of female bosses at the helm of Fortune 500 companies in America reached an all-time high of 41. In 2021 CVS Health, the country’s fourth-biggest firm by revenue, became the largest to be run by a woman. And for the first time, two of America’s largest businesses—Walgreens Boots Alliance, another chain of chemists, and TIAA, a financial-services firm—are run by black women.
In America and other well-off places women are making strides in business, according to The Economist’s glass-ceiling index, an annual snapshot of female empowerment. The share of women on corporate boards, for
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