The 25 best CEOs of 2020, ranked by female employees

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was ranked highly as an effective leader by female employees.Stephen Lam/Reuters

• From the rise of the #MeToo movement to the coronavirus pandemic exposing massive inequality, the past few years have sparked growing conversations around gender equality at work.
• Careers website Comparably set out to find which corporate leaders female employees feel most supported by.
• The job site asked female employees at more than 60,000 companies to rate their CEOs on leadership, effectiveness, and inclusion.
• Among some of the highly ranked CEOs are Google's Sundar Pichai, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
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The past few years have sparked many important conversations around gender in the workplace.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's seminal book "Lean In," sparked discussions around gender and race in corporate America. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements shined a light on assault and harassment against women in various industries and across the globe. The coronavirus pandemic made more executives aware of the unpaid household and childcare duties women disproportionately take on, and who was most economically impacted by the pandemic's economic fallout.

Now, calls for diversity and inclusion from workers amid Black Lives Matter protests are forcing corporations to take a look inward and make changes.

For leaders looking to make change, knowing which corporate leaders rank highly among women can help. It could also help female workers looking to potentially switch companies. Career website Comparably surveyed female employees across some 60,000 large companies (over 500 employees) and small-to-mid-sized companies asking them to anonymously rate their CEO on issues like company culture, leadership, and support for female employees. The survey was open from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

It should be noted that the list of CEOs is largely white and male, pointing to America's lack of diversity in the C-suite. But this is the first year a woman has been ranked the top CEO on Comparably's list since the survey was first conducted in 2018.

Here are the top CEOs at 25 large US companies female employees ranked highly, listed in ascending order of positive reviews. You can review the full list here.