GM CEO Mary Barra was near the top in a recent list of 2022’s most powerful women.
The list, as compiled by Forbes, is intended to highlight “innovators and instigators who are leading on the world stage to redefine traditional power structures and forge lasting impact in every sphere of influence.” At the top of the list is European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen, followed by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde in the number-two spot, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in third.
GM CEO Mary Barra was ranked fourth on the list, with Forbes highlighting GM’s pledge to transition to an all-electric portfolio by 2035, as well as the automaker’s ambitions to capture more EV market share than Tesla by 2025.
Barra joined GM at the age of 18, holding a variety of different positions at the company in the years and decades to follow, including management at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly facility (now known as GM Factory Zero), vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering, vice president of Global Human Resources, and executive vice president of Global Product Development.
Barra assumed the role of GM CEO in January 2014, following Daniel Akerson. Barra is the first woman, and remains the only woman, to lead a major automaker. Barra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the General Motors Institute and a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business through a GM fellowship.
According to Forbes, GM has consistently scored high in gender equity reports under Barra’s leadership, with the publication noting that GM was one of only two global businesses with no gender pay gap.
Notably, Barra also ranked fourth on Fortune’s list of the most powerful women for 2022. The Fortune list also includes president and CEO of CVS Health, Karen Lynch, chair and CEO of Accenture, Julie Sweet, and CEO of Citigroup, Jane Fraser.
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What’s truly amazing is that she was able to keep her job with GM along with the other executives when the taxpayers bailed them out. They ran that company into the ground and needed the taxpayers money to bail out their mistakes. Now she is the CEO. Go figure. The Government should have let them go bankrupt. They could have reorganized the company and eliminated all the executives that caused the mess in the first place. The company could have been even stronger then they are now.
She needs to be fired she is killing GM
Regardless of whether people think Mary Barra is doing a great job or a terrible one, I just don’t see her as being the 4th most powerful woman in the world.
Doesnt deserve it, and if were being honest, outside of the corvette and hummer, gm offers nothing. I know im not the only who thinks this
youre not alone, thats for sure. There are plenty of bigots out there.
Ding, ding…we have a libby-winner. The magic liberal word: “bigot” (to shut down debate and avoid hurt feelings).
Surprised you didn’t mention the standard “hatred” in your comment too…
Lizard says we all must love and adore Mary. Why? Because of her gender. No criticisms allowed, or something.
Pushing the woman agenda always trying to make things look more Rosy than they are I don’t see where GM is doing so great I think she is actually a problem not a plus but of course the propaganda will continue brainwashing also and of course I have to bring up gender instead of just talking about the company just like they typically bring up race instead of just talking about the person continually pushing agendas
One thing GM offers is their full size pickups, Silverado and Sierra outselling Ford’s F150 in 2020,2021, and again in 2022.
Here we are, the end of 2022, and a truck that I ordered on 3/9/2022, which was built on 6/20/2022, is still sitting at the factory. Great job Mary. Keep it up. This is exactly how you do business and retain customers.
Lizard_105.3 says that’s your problem, Not Mary’s, Why? Because Mary’s a woman (or today’s closest definition of “woman”), according to Lizard_109.7.
Are you kidding she has ruined the number one automobile company in America to the imports .. another DemoRat
Just love it that trolls who hate everything about GM actually subscibe to GM Authority, take the time to read the posts and then even more time to trash GM and bring in their political views while they’re at it! Do they not have anything better or productive to do with their time? Hobbies? Girlfriends?
Back to the real subject of the post: Cadillac Blackwings, C8 Corvettes, Silverados: Thanks Mary!
The insight and guts to foresee the EV future and set a bold course to be in it to win it? Thanks Mary!
Hi Tim,
-My wife of 24 years isn’t particularly fond of me having girlfriends…just ask her!
-One of my hobbies is collecting, fixing, and restoring old Pontiacs…
-I was a GM diehard for 40 years, now I’m not….
-My brother has one of the CT-4V Blackwings, and it is indeed a glimmer of hope at GM.
The bigger issue with Mary, in my opinion, are the folks that instantly label disagreements with Mary’s leadership as misogynistic, hateful, bigoted, or a host of other names. The theory being one where you can’t criticize a leader if she’s a woman?
Are all women automatically perfect and stellar CEO’s? If you don’t hold the same requirements of ALL CEO’s, then you’re just lying to yourself about the whole concept of leadership….just to make yourself feel good.
I’m going to bet the same folks here who love Mary likely hate Elon…
Great job huh? Delivered 36 Lyriq’s in Q3. Unbelievable.
She sucks👎
That sign says ‘Made in Michigan’.
H’mmm.
Paraphrasing an episode of Barney Miller, “Made in Michigan!” “You know, that’s interesting, Yamana. We have a state called Michigan right here in the USA!”