Look around the city, and you’ll find women newly named as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, president of GBH, and editor of the Boston Globe. Voters seem to be ahead of the curve, but boards of directors and search committees are catching up. The most obvious example is our new number one: Maura Healey, who became the state’s first woman elected governor just a year after Michelle Wu became the first woman elected mayor of Boston. That’s represented throughout our 2023 ranking of the most influential Bostonians-in fact, nearly half of the people on the list are women.
Now, in a stream of elections, appointments, and hires over the past year or so, female leaders have finally positioned themselves at the head of many of those tables.
For years, Boston’s women have fought for a seat at the tables of power.
