40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars

I was clicking through the slideshow today, and around #10 (Sid Sankaran of AIG) I realized that I hadn’t seen a single woman.
So I kept clicking. No. 11, Sergey Brin of Google. No. 13, Ryan Seacrest of…RYAN SEACREST??? OK, whatever, sure. No. 18, Daniel Elk of Spotify…
It took me 20 clicks to find one woman—Marissa Mayer, long-time Googler.
On Fortune’s list of the 40 hottest business stars under 40—a list that, with a few ties, actually includes 45 people—there were six women! That’s 13 percent! That’s shocking to me!
Now, I like Fortune. I’ve also never bothered to count the number of women on any list before. (But now that we’ve started—Fortune’s covers for this feature give us 3 men and 3 women, and the homepage for the list features 4 women, 2 men, and what appears to be Mark Zuckerberg as a baby.)
But I’m just pretty sure there are more than six women who might qualify for this list of FORTY-FIVE people.
3 notes, October 25, 2011