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 10 are under 50 years old.

Rank ▾	Name	Company	Age
14	Marissa Mayer	Yahoo	37
21	Gisel Ruiz	Wal-Mart Stores	42
8	Sheryl Sandberg	Facebook	43
18	Susan Wojcicki	Google	43
47	Heather Bresch	Mylan	43
24	Mary Callahan Erdoes	JP Morgan Chase	45
29	Charlene Begley	GE	45
23	Bridget Van Kralingen	IBM	49
32	Kathleen Murphy	Fidelity Investments	49
48	Lauren Zalaznick	Comcast	49
9	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity Investments	50
10	Safra Catz	Oracle	50
13	Rosalind Brewer	Wal-Mart Stores	50
27	Mary Barra	GM	50
11	Melanie Healey	P&G	51
22	Carrie Tolstedt	Wells Fargo	52
26	Deirdre Connelly	GlaxoSmithKline	52
28	Gail Boudreaux	UnitedHealth Group	52
30	Pam Nicholson	Enterprise Holdings	52
17	Sheri McCoy	Avon Products	53
40	Karen Licitra	Johnson & Johnson	53
7	Ursula Burns	Xerox	54
12	Anne Sweeney	Disney/ABC Television Group	54
16	Phebe Novakovic	General Dynamics	54
1	Ginni Rometty	IBM	55
36	Susan Chambers	Wal-Mart Stores	55
44	Carol Tomé	Home Depot	55
2	Indra Nooyi	PepsiCo	56
3	Meg Whitman	Hewlett-Packard	56
5	Ellen Kullman	DuPont	56
39	Debra Reed	Sempra Energy	56
42	Laura Sen	BJ's Wholesale Club	56
46	Laura Lang	Time Inc.	56
25	Jan Fields	McDonald's USA	57
35	Maggie Wilderotter	Frontier Communications	57
49	Beth Mooney	Keycorp	57
15	Carol Meyrowitz	TJX Cos.	58
19	Marillyn Hewson	Lockheed Martin	58
20	Denise Morrison	Campbell Soup Co.	58
31	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin	58
41	Pat Fili-Krushel	Comcast	58
50	Oprah Winfrey	OWN	58
4	Irene Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods	59
6	Patricia Woertz	ADM	59
34	Linda Gooden	Lockheed Martin	59
37	Abbe Raven	A&E Television Networks	59
43	Ilene Gordon	Ingredion	59
45	Gracia Martore	Gannett Co.	61
33	Bonnie Hammer	Comcast	62
38	Linda Hudson	BAE Systems Inc.	62

From the October 8, 2012 issue

Fortune's Most Powerful Women

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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.

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