FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business 2005

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FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Charlene Begley Rank: 20 (2004 Rank: New to the list) Age: 39 Company: General Electric Based in: Fairfield Title: CEO and President, Plastics Get quote: GE
Jeff Immelt and Jack Welch both cut their teeth running plastics; now it's Begley's turn. In July she became head of the $7 billion unit — and the first woman in GE's history to be a senior VP.

From the November 14, 2005 issue

Highest pay

These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005.

Rank	Company	2004 total compensation
1	Meg Whitman	$29.9 million
2	Andrea Jung	$22.1 million
3 (tie)	Suzanne Johnson	$17.5 million
3 (tie)	Zoe Cruz	$17.5 million
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Young and powerful

Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.

Rank	Name	Age
1	Charlene Begley	39
2	Sallie Krawcheck	40
3	Susan Decker	42
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Perennial powers

These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998.

Rank	Name	Company
1	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo
2	Andrea Jung	Avon
3	Pat Russo	Lucent
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