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Forbes lists world's 100 most powerful women
Howard Lake | 31 July 2005 | News
Business magazine Forbes has published its second annual list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. It’s not a list of the wealthiest women of course, but in many cases there’s a good correlation between power and wealth.
Forbes offers some useful methods of exploring the top 100 list. You can view by country, rank and occupation, as well as by name of course.
The magazine has also chosen to subdivide the list into four occupations:
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Business
Media
Philanthropy
Politics
The top 10 list is:
1. Condoleezza Rice
2. Wu Yi
3. Yulia Tymoshenko
4. Gloria Arroyo
5. Margaret Whitman
6. Anne Mulcahy
7. Sallie Krawcheck
8. Brenda Barnes
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Melinda Gates
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.