Mumbai sources stated that the growing number of women in revenue-generating roles and reporting directly to CEOs is a strong indicator that more and more women will find their way into the corner room at large global companies soon, according to Andrea Jung, president and chief executive officer of Grameen America and a member on the board of Apple.
Meanwhile in a telephonic interview from New York, she pointed to Apple as an example, where several women report directly to CEO Tim Cook. Such roles Jung said “will lead them to the CEO job”. Moreover in her earlier assignment, when Jung became the chief executive of Avon, she was one among the only three female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies. That number has since grown to 6%. She said “The next 10 years, hopefully, will be better than the last 10 years”.
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Jung is one of the inaugural speakers at the ET Women’s Forum that
will kick off this Friday and the daylong event is intended and designed to
collaboratively create an urgent, sustainable and national culture of empowering
India’s half a billion women.
