The Boston Globe Magazine published its list of 100 women-led businesses this week as part of special issue focusing on women and entrepreneurship in Boston and beyond. Boston Children’s Hospital, led by president and chief executive Sandra Fenwick, topped the list of 100 businesses with women leaders. Others on the list include:

• Anita Rajan Worden, chief executive and co-founder of Solectria Renewables (#61)
• Sheila Marcelo, founder and chief executive of Care.com (#78)
• Pamela Goldberg, Mass. Tech Collaborative chief executive  (#92)

Also in the Women & Power issue, Globe columnist Shirley Leung looks past the the long crack in the “glass ceiling” to the “glass cliff,” the rare but precarious position women chief executives find themselves in when they’re called in to rescue a company in crisis. Leung explains:

Virginia “Ginni” Rometty is the headband-wearing CEO who has to make computer giant IBM relevant again. Mary Barra is the insider charged with changing General Motors’ culture, one that covered up a deadly defect in millions of cars. Marissa Mayer, who was seven months pregnant when she got the nod to lead Yahoo, has to find a way for the search engine company to thrive in the age of Google.

According to Leung, it tends to be women who step up to the plate, and women who gamble on a turnaround, in exchange for a chance to lead.

Lastly, comparing Boston’s startup scene with the culture in Silicon Valley, women tech leaders tell Shan Wang and Li Zhou that Boston has the opportunity to host a more inclusive culture for women and minority groups traditionally under-represented in the startup world.

Lots more to explore, including a Q&A with Wonder Woman historian Jill Lepore, here.