Fortune Announces 2020 Most Powerful Women in Business
NEW YORK , Oct. 19, 2020 -- Today, FORTUNE has announced the 2020 edition of its Most Powerful Women in Business list , which includes 16 FORTUNE 500 CEOs, and the return of Jane Fraser , who in February 2021 will become the first woman to head a major U.S. bank. Top honors go to Accenture CEO Julie Sweet for the first time. Of the selection process for this year's list, Kristen Bellstrom and Beth Kowitt write, "Simply put, 2020 is the year when we said a final goodbye to business as usual. So as we prepared our 23rd Most Powerful Women list, it became clear that the approach we have taken with this ranking for the past 22 years must change too." (PRNewsfoto/FORTUNE Media) FORTUNE has used the same four criteria to rank the Most Powerful Women list since its advent in 1998: the size and importance of each woman's business in the global economy; the health and direction of the business;...