50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2006: Age

FORTUNE 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

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Age

Age

Rank	Name	Company	Age
22	Charlene Begley	General Electric	39
9	Sallie Krawcheck	Citigroup	41
32	Pat Curran	Wal-Mart Stores	42
33	Lisa Weber	MetLife	43
18	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity	44
50	Stacey Snider	Viacom	45
24	Lois Quam	UnitedHealth Group	45
45	Claire Watts	Wal-Mart Stores	46
43	Deirdre Connelly	Eli Lilly	46
31	Mary Minnick	Coca-Cola	46
20	Susan Ivey	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco	47
46	Catherine West	J.C. Penney	47
13	Anne Sweeney	Disney Media Networks	48
14	Ann Livermore	Hewlett-Packard	48
27	Ursula Burns	Xerox	48
41	Amy Pascal	Sony	48
42	Dawn Hudson	PepsiCo	48
7	Andrea Jung	Avon	48
39	Carrie Cox	Schering-Plough	49
16	Ginni Rometty	IBM	49
17	Susan Desmond-Hellmann	Genentech	49
29	Linda Dillman	Wal-Mart	50
23	Amy Brinkley	Bank of America	50
21	Ellen Kullman	DuPont	50
40	Paula Rosput Reynolds	Safeco	50
3	Meg Whitman	eBay	50
1	Indra Nooyi	PepsiCo	50
48	Diane Gulyas	DuPont	50
19	Zoe Cruz	Morgan Stanley	51
10	Susan Arnold	Procter & Gamble	52
26	Carol Meyrowitz	TJX Cos.	52
44	Ellyn McColgan	Fidelity	52
35	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin	52
37	Colleen Goggins	Johnson & Johnson	52
47	Nancy Peretsman	Allen & Co.	52
5	Irene Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods	52
8	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo Inc.	52
11	Christine Poon	Johnson & Johnson	53
2	Anne Mulcahy	Xerox	53
6	Brenda Barnes	Sara Lee	53
4	Pat Woertz	Archer Daniels Midland	53
25	Heidi Miller	J.P. Morgan Chase	53
12	Judy McGrath	Viacom	54
15	Ann Moore	Time Inc.	56
36	Doreen Toben	Verizon	56
30	Shelly Lazarus	Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide	59
49	Christina Gold	Western Union	59
34	Mary Sammons	Rite Aid	60
38	Cathleen Black	Hearst Magazines	62
28	Martha Stewart	Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia	65

From the October 16, 2006 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, 2006.

Rank	Company	2005 total compensation
1	Safra Catz	$26.1 million
2	Susan Decker	$24.3 million
3	Suzanne Nora Johnson	$23.1 million
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Perennial powers

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

Rank	Name	Company
38	Cathleen Black	Hearst Magazines
7	Andrea Jung	Avon
30	Shelley Lazarus	WPP
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