50 Most Powerful Women in Business

FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Age

Just one of the women on this year's list is under 40, but 14 are under 50 years old.

Rank	Name	Company	Age
38	Marissa Mayer	Google	36
48	Meredith Whitney	Meredith Whitney Advisors	41
12	Sheryl Sandberg	Facebook	42
28	Susan Wojcicki	Google	43
20	Charlene Begley	General Electric	44
24	Mary Callahan Erdoes	J.P. Morgan Chase	44
46	Shari Ballard	Best Buy	45
31	Gina Drosos	Procter & Gamble	48
32	Kathleen Murphy	Fidelity Investments	48
39	Bridget Van Kralingen	IBM	48
43	Lauren Zalaznick	Comcast	48
47	Deanna Mulligan	The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America	48
11	Safra Catz	Oracle	49
18	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity Investments	49
23	Rosalind Brewer	Wal-Mart	49
13	Melanie Healey	Procter & Gamble	50
19	Susan Wagner	BlackRock	50
5	Angela Braly	Wellpoint	51
25	Deirdre Connelly	GlaxoSmithKline	51
26	Pamela Nicholson	Enterprise Holdings	51
30	Gail Boudreaux	UnitedHealth Group	51
10	Sherilyn McCoy	Johnson & Johnson	52
6	Andrea Jung	Avon Products	53
8	Ursula Burns	Xerox	53
14	Anne Sweeney	The Walt Disney Company	53
41	Phebe Novakovic	General Dynamics	53
50	Amy Pascal	Sony	53
7	Ginni Rometty	IBM	54
22	Susan Chambers	Wal-Mart Stores	54
2	Indra Nooyi	PepsiCo.	55
4	Ellen Kullman	DuPont	55
9	Meg Whitman	Hewlett-Packard	55
35	Lynn Elsenhans	Sunoco	55
44	Laura Sen	BJ's Wholesale Club	55
45	Debra Reed	Sempra Energy	55
17	Jan Fields	McDonalds	56
37	Maggie Wilderotter	Frontier Communications	56
49	Beth Mooney	Key Corp	56
15	Carol Meyrowitz	The TJX Companies	57
16	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo	57
21	Denise Morrison	Campbell Soup	57
27	Marillyn Hewson	Lockheed Martin	57
29	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin	57
1	Irene Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods	58
3	Patricia Woertz	Archer Daniels Midland	58
33	Linda Gooden	Lockheed Martin	58
40	Abbe Raven	A&E Television Networks	58
42	Ilene Gordon	Corn Products Intl.	58
34	Linda Hudson	BAE Systems, Inc.	61
36	Bonnie Hammer	Comcast	61

From the October 17, 2011 issue

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How we pick the Power 50

The list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman’s career (resume and runway ahead), and societal and cultural influence.

Top 3

Name	2010 total compensation
Safra A. Catz	$42 million
Wellington J. Denahan-Norris	$23.6 million
Carol Meyrowitz	$19.2 million

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Name	Age
Marissa Mayer	36
Meredith Whitney	41
Sheryl Sandberg	42

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Name	Rank
Cynthia Carroll	1
Gail Kelly	2
Marjorie Scardino	3

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