the 25 Most Powerful Women

1. Angela Merkel (Chancellor) Germany
2. Wu Yi (Vice premier) China
3. Ho Ching (Chief executive, Temasek Holdings) Singapore
4. Condoleezza Rice (Secretary of State) U.S.
5. Indra K. Nooyi (Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo) U.S.
6. Sonia Gandhi (President, Congress Party) India
7. Cynthia Carroll (Chief executive, Anglo American) U.K.
8. Patricia A. Woertz (Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland) U.S.
9. Irene Rosenfeld (Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods) U.S.
10. Patricia Russo (Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent) U.S.
11. Michèle Alliot-Marie (Minister for the Interior and overseas territories) France
12. Christine Lagarde (Minister of economy, finance and employment) France
13. Anne M. Mulcahy (Chairman, chief executive, Xerox) U.S.
14. Anne Lauvergeon (Chief executive, Areva) France
15. Mary Sammons (Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid Corp.) U.S.
16. Angela Braly (Chief executive, president, WellPoint) U.S.
17. Marjorie Scardino (Chief executive, Pearson PLC) U.K.
18. Wu Xiaoling (Deputy governor, People’s Bank of China) China
19. Brenda Barnes (Chairman, chief executive, Sara Lee Corp.) U.S.
20. Ruth Bader (Ginsburg Supreme court justice) U.S.
21. Oprah Winfrey (Chairman, Harpo) U.S.
22. Margaret Whitman (Chief executive, president, Ebay) U.S.
23. Queen Elizabeth II (Queen) U.K.
24. Melinda Gates (Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) U.S.
25. Hillary Rodham Clinton (U.S. senator, New York) U.S.

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