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In the corporate world, only five women lead Fortune 500 companies.

The more interesting part of the bio is that women are being trusted to lead Fortune 500 companies in a time of massive disruption.

E. Stanley O'Neal, 56, at Merrill Lynch and Richard D. Parsons, 59, at Time Warner, have nevertheless inhabited the public imagination as two executives who helped rewrite history by breaking down cultural barriers and rising to lead Fortune 500 companies.

Mrs Fiorina is widely known as the first female chief executive to lead a Fortune 20 company.

Ms. Burns has been with Xerox for three decades and is the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.

Fiorina zoomed up the ranks, and in 1999, HP poached her to become the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company.

Her sister, Maggie Wilderotter, is the CEO of Frontier Communications and also earned the distinction of being among the women who lead a Fortune 500 company.

There are congressmen (Gary Ackerman, Eliot L. Engel, Gregory W. Meeks) and chief executives: Lloyd C. Blankfein runs Goldman Sachs, Howard Schultz heads up Starbucks, and Ursula M. Burns, who was named chief executive of Xerox this month, will become the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.

Morrison, one of the only 21 women to lead a Fortune 500 company, became CEO of Campbell Soup in August 2011, after working at the company for more than eight years.

Even though Ms. Sandberg's prescriptions may appear irrelevant to middle-class mothers who cannot afford an army of nannies, her call to action drew attention to a puzzle that affects women outside the set of potential candidates to lead a Fortune 500 company: how did women get stuck?

"In the 'noughties,' we are finding that one Carly Fiorina doesn't totally change the world," she said, referring to the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard whose appointment to the job last year made her the third woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.