General Motors, once an archetypal bastion of middle-aged male executives, yesterday became the first of the big three US carmakers to appoint a female leader when it said that Mary Barra would take over as chief executive next month.
Ms Barra, who worked her way up through the GM engineering operation from the age of 18 to become global head of product development for the US’s biggest carmaker by sales, will take over from Dan Akerson, 65, chief executive since 2010.
Mr Akerson brought forward his planned retirement “by several months”, the company said, after his wife was diagnosed with “an advanced stage of cancer”.
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