FORTUNE 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 
FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Video: Most Powerful Women Summit
'Don't worry about stepping on toes'
'Don't worry about stepping on toes' MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath offers career advice and talks about business challenges in an interview at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. video
'My biggest challenge'
'My biggest challenge' 3 powerful women - astronaut Sally Ride, MTV Networks' Judy McGrath, and Xerox's Ursula Burns - explain. video
videoArianna Huffington: 'Practicing fearlessness'
videoFlickr.com co-founder Fake: Women and VCs
videoSupermodel Iman: 'Have a passion'
videoXerox's Burns: Time, stress, and travel
videoAstronaut Sally Ride on business
videoTime Inc.'s Moore: Diversity starts at top
video3 most powerful women
videoMost Powerful Women Summit

Oprah Winfrey
And the winners are...
Call it the year of the Most Powerful Woman CEO. In fact the top seven positions on the 2006 list are held by chief executives. (more)
1. Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
6. Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee
2. Anne Mulcahy, Xerox
7. Andrea Jung, Avon
3. Meg Whitman, eBay
8. Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Inc.
4. Pat Woertz, ADM
9. Sallie Krawcheck, Citigroup
5. Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
10. Susan Arnold, P&G
• See the full list

Meg Whitman
10 Highest-paid
Four of the Most Powerful Women are also among the best-compensated, such as No. 3-ranked Meg Whitman, who made $16.2 million last year. Which other corporate women raked it in - and how much did they earn? (more)
• 10 best-paid men
• 10 Best-paid: Still a boys’ club

Padmasree Warrior
4 Rising stars
Executives like Motorola's Padmasree Warrior are on the way up. Will they make the Most Powerful Women list next year? (more)
• 9 newcomers
• 9 who fell off the list - and why
• 6 perennial powers
• Global Power 50

Charlene Begley
Young and powerful
Just one woman under 40 made the Most Powerful Women list this year: GE's 39-year-old Charlene Begley. See the Power 50 sorted by age. (more)
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It's good to be the boss
Female chief executives are taking charge at a slew of corporate giants. (more)
3 big companies where women rule
How Reynolds American, DuPont, and Honeywell spotted - and promoted - a critical mass of female talent. (more)
The women of Viacom
The company's biggest brands are run by women. FORTUNE talks with four of them. (more)
ADM's Pat Woertz: The Outsider
What is the new CEO's plan for the agribusiness giant? A big part of it will be ethanol. (more)
Mulcahy: 'We saw the opportunity'
How Xerox is preparing for tomorrow. Plus more interviews with powerful women:
• Avon's Andrea Jung: 'Now is the time to invest'
• Eli Lilly 's Deirdre Connelly: 'People depend on us'
• JP Morgan Chase's Heidi Miller: 'Able to step back'
• Anna Deavere Smith on creativity at Viacom
• Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: 'So much learning'
Tips
Avoiding the dreaded B-word
How women executives can stand up for themselves without being labeled uncooperative, or worse. (more)
Quiz
Are you bold enough?
The executives on our Most Powerful Women list got where they are by making gutsy moves. Do you have the nerve to succeed? (more)
Quick Vote
What's the best way to get power at work?
  Gain experience in diverse roles
  Take career risks
  Show loyalty to bosses
  Take on visible projects
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