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Claire Zillman is a London-based senior editor for Fortune, where she writes and edits features about corporate leadership, with a focus on female executives. She also edits Fortune's flagship newsletter, CEO Daily, and co-chairs Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. Her Fortune cover story, "The First Lady of Wall Street," about Jane Fraser's rise to become the first female CEO among Wall Street's big banks earned her a SABEW, and her feature on the then-unbroken glass ceiling at Wall Street’s banking giants won a New York Press Award. Claire has also worked for Fortune in New York and Hong Kong. Earlier in her career, she was a reporter for The American Lawyer magazine. She graduated with honors from Syracuse University with degrees in journalism and history and is originally from Chicago. She lives in East London with her husband and son.

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Oprah Winfrey’s investment in Spanx is a full-circle moment
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeNovember 19, 2021
Is hybrid work the new ‘mommy track’? It doesn’t have to be
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Is hybrid work the new ‘mommy track’? It doesn’t have to be
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeNovember 16, 2021
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India’s first woman-led unicorn to go public mints its richest self-made female billionaire
By Emma Hinchliffe and Claire ZillmanNovember 11, 2021
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CEO Sarah Friar sold Nextdoor as a ‘kinder’ social network. Investors are buying it—for now.
By Emma Hinchliffe and Claire ZillmanNovember 9, 2021
Meghan Markle is surprising senators with phone calls about paid leave
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Meghan Markle is surprising senators with phone calls about paid leave
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeNovember 4, 2021
Female-founded startups are having a banner year in many regards.
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Female-founded startups had a dire 2020. In 2021, they’re breaking records for money raised and exits
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeNovember 2, 2021
A common strategy for closing the gender pay gap actually hurts women’s earning power
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A common strategy for closing the gender pay gap actually hurts women’s earning power
By Kristen Bellstrom and Claire ZillmanOctober 29, 2021
Is America about to our blow our best—and perhaps last—chance for paid leave?
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Is America about to our blow our best—and perhaps last—chance for paid leave?
By Kristen Bellstrom and Claire ZillmanOctober 28, 2021
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Kansas City women’s soccer team is getting a first-of-its-kind stadium
By Claire ZillmanOctober 27, 2021
Sara Blakely celebrates Spanx’s  Blackstone deal by giving all employees first class plane tickets and $10,000
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Sara Blakely celebrates Spanx’s Blackstone deal by giving all employees first class plane tickets and $10,000
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeOctober 26, 2021
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Meet the exec who brought ‘Squid Game’ to Netflix
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeOctober 21, 2021
Boards of directors finally realize their diversity problem is not going to fix itself
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Boards of directors finally realize their diversity problem is not going to fix itself
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeOctober 19, 2021
Back view of a woman wants to ask a question on a seminar.
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A simulated workplace shows how sexist slights can cripple a woman’s career
By Claire Zillman and Emma HinchliffeOctober 15, 2021
FORTUNE Most Powerful Women 2021
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Accenture hired 118,000 employees in the last year. The VR headsets helped
By Claire ZillmanOctober 13, 2021
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How Amazon Studios plans to take on TikTok
By Emma Hinchliffe and Claire ZillmanOctober 12, 2021
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