Most Powerful Women in Business

Women are climbing the ranks in the business world, and many of them wield a great deal of powerful. Fortune routinely puts out a list of the 50 most powerful women in business. This year, 13 of those 50 run Fortune 500 companies. That’s an increase over the two that ran Fortune when the list first premiered in 1998. Not all of the women on the list have the top spot, but all of them are high-ranking executives. (Indeed, some companies have more than one powerful woman in different executive positions.) Here are the top 20 most powerful women in business, according to Fortune:

1. Indra Nooyi: PepsiCo
2. Irene Rosenfeld: Kraft Foods
3. Pat Woertz: Archer Daniels Midland
4. Angela Braly: Wellpoint
5. Andrea Jung: Avon Products
6. Oprah Winfrey: Harpo
7. Ellen Kullman: DuPont
8. Carol Bartz: Yahoo
9. Ursula Burns: Xerox
10. Brenda Burns: Sara Lee
11. Ginny Rometty: IBM
12. Safra Catz: Oracle
13. Ann Livermore: Hewlet-Packard
14. Sheri McCoy: Johnson & Johnson
15. Melanie Healy: Procter & Gamble
16. Anne Sweeney: Disney/ABC Television Group
17. Heidi Miller: JPMorgan Chase
18. Carol Meyrowitz: TJX
19. Colleen Goggins: Johnson & Johnson
20. Judy McGrath: Viacom

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