Heineken USA’s New CEO Is the First Woman to Lead a Major American Beer Company
Mike Pomranz /
Food & Wine
Though the beer industry has been making a push to appeal more to both sexes, only 29 percent of brewery workers are female, only about 17 percent of craft breweries have a female CEO, and only 4 percent of breweries have a female head brewer. The numbers aren’t particularly better for America’s largest breweries where a female had never held the position of CEO—until this week, that is.