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This year's Fortune 500 list was a record-breaking affair for female CEOs, with 41 woman-run companies making the cut.

The annual list, which ดาวน์โหลด และ ติดตั้ง slotxo ranks America's largest companies, also made history as two African American female CEOs made the list for the first time -- Rosalind Brewer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA.

PHOTO: Roz Brewer speaks during the TV One's 3rd Annual Urban One Honors, which aired on TV One and Cleo TV, May 16, 2021.
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PHOTO: Thasunda Duckett attends the Fortune's Most Powerful Women conference in Dana Point, Calif., Oct. 2, 2018.

Prior to Brewer and Duckett, the only other African American woman to run a Fortune 500 company, on a permanent basis, was Ursula Burns, the former CEO of Xerox who stepped down in 2017. Burns, now the chairwoman of VEON and a member of Uber's board of directors, became a trailblazer throughout her career as the first African American woman to run an S&P 500 company.

She told Rebecca Jarvis in an interview on the podcast "No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis" in 2017 that one of the keys to having more women in leadership roles is expanding STEM education.

"You can't run the company until you get some broader set of experiences," said Burns, crediting her engineering degree for helping her perform a number of different roles within Xerox before becoming CEO. "Part of what I think happens with good diversity, particularly gender diversity, it pulls on the comfort levels of both sides to actually come toward the middle and to actually be significantly more inclusive -- to be a little bit more understanding to design better solutions "