Forbes Faces Backlash For Their Most Innovative Leaders List
Sep 09, 2019
The most popular business magazine Forbes, recently faced a backlash for including only one female under the list of 100 most innovative leaders. The list included 99 men including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk with only one woman Barbara Rentler, CEO of Ross Stores.
Netizens slammed Forbes in strongly-worded posts. "You should be ashamed of yourselves. It's 2019 and America's Most Innovative Leaders is 99 MEN AND ONE WOMAN? Un-bloody-believable," Cindy Gallop tweeted. Several others followed suit.
I read "Firsts" a bit differently. For me, these women are glass-ceiling-breakers; trailblazers paving the way for millions more to follow suit. There is a unique strength, tenacity, perseverance required to do the first time.
— Neeraj Mathur (@neeraj) September 8, 2019
I am thankful to each one of them.???????????????????
Check out the people’s reactions here:
Fixed this for you, @Forbes...
— Carolyn Thomas (@HeartSisters) September 7, 2019
Here's the photo of Barbara Rentler (the only woman you could find) for your Top 100 Most Innovative Leaders list - but somehow couldn't track down a single photo of... Welcome to 2019. https://t.co/HkgkjB7J6O pic.twitter.com/jra0eTTaWj
I've been thinking about how it was possible for @Forbes to have one woman on the list of 100! And not even include a picture. My theory is that they had no women at ALL..... https://t.co/zWfrCq9RPC
— Mehrsa Baradaran (@MehrsaBaradaran) September 7, 2019
So this is kinda random but I just noticed that the three men who created that 99%-dude Forbes list have not been on Twitter since 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively. And it’s a list about innovation. This makes me blink hard. pic.twitter.com/QWPwJDLf3A
— Arlan ???????? (@ArlanWasHere) September 7, 2019
At first I thought maybe they had a men's and women's list....??????? pic.twitter.com/gBNUpH2h5y
— Sarah Friar (@thefriley) September 5, 2019
@TIME to the rescue pic.twitter.com/swdpTWTpaN
— Elif Oker (@DrElifOker) September 7, 2019
@Forbes pic.twitter.com/flG1t4EEPa
— Andrew C Bly (@82acb) September 6, 2019
Seriously embarrassing @Forbes.
— Jmack570 (@Jmack570) September 6, 2019
There’s 2 tied for first place, so they don’t have anyone in the 2nd place; ie, it goes from first place to third place.
— Democracies only exist if people vote. (@priscilla_nurse) September 6, 2019