# Forbes lists world's 100 most powerful women

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/07/31/forbes-lists-world039s-100-most-powerful-women/
- Published: 2005-07-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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:

Business

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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

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