Do you know the world’s 100 most powerful women?
Posted by Cottontimer on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Our World
The Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list has been released and I’m embarrassed to say that of the top 10, I only really knew who one of them was right off the bat.
Here are the top 10:
- Angela Merkel - Chancellor, Germany
- Wu Yi - Vice premier, China
- Ho Ching - Chief executive, Temasek Holdings, Singapore
- Condoleezza Rice - Secretary of State , U.S.
- Indra K. Nooyi - Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo, U.S.
- Sonia Gandhi - President, India
- Cynthia Carroll - Chief executive, Anglo American, U.K.
- Patricia A. Woertz - Cochairman, Archer Daniels Midland, U.S.
- Irene Rosenfeld - Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods, U.S.
- Patricia Russo - Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent, U.S.
Other women I recognized from their names alone without any descriptors:
20. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme court justice, US
21. Oprah Winfrey - Chairman, Harpo, US
22. Margaret Whitman - Chief executive, president, Ebay, US
23. Queen Elizabeth II - Queen, UK
24. Melinda Gates - Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US
25. Hillary Rodham Clinton - US senator, New York, US
26. Nancy Pelosi - Speaker of the House, House of Representatives, US
32. Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding - Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, US
51. Gloria Arroyo - President, Philippines
55. Meredith Vieira - Host, The Today Show, US
60. Laura Bush - First Lady, US
62. Diane Sawyer, Co-anchor, Good Morning America, US
63. Katie Couric - Anchor, managing editor, CBS Evening News, US
71. Aung San Suu Kyi - Nobel Peace laureate, Democratically elected leader of Myanmar, 1990
74. Christiane Amanpour - Chief international correspondent, CNN
How many of these powerful women did you know about?
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pst pst…Must have been a typo…Sonia Gandhi is President of India National Congress Party, not the country ^_^. She had won the last elections to become Prime Minister, but nominated Manmohan Singh to take the position.
But of the ten I know 2, Merkel & Sonia Gandhi! Mostly I guess cause I don’t follow business news…. it absolutely bores me! I did know China had a lady VP but never remember names.. :S
Oooh. Bad on Forbes. They didn’t make that clear on the list but they did on the profile itself. I also caught another typo where they misspelled the Philippines as “Philipines.”
I don’t see my wife on there … she rules my world.
Goodness. You are whipped!!
Hahaha! I know only 1 out of the top 10 - Sonia Gandhi! I should have known Ho Ching since I had lived in the same country.
Hi Jesie, Thanks for the comment! What’s your blog URL? Your link doesn’t seem to work….
I know 4 of the top 10, Merkel (I was in Frankfurt when she replaced Schroeder), Ho Ching (everyone in Singapore knows her), Condi Rice and Sonia Gandhi.
As you would say: Show-off.
From the rest of the list, I only know about Oprah, QE2, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Zaha Hadid, Aung San Suu Kyi, Christiane Amanpour and Queen Rania. Where’s your name? 101?
I’m at 102, after you at 101.