50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2007: Age

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FORTUNE 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Age

Half the women on this year's list are 50 or younger.

Rank	Name	Company	Age
29	Sheryl Sandberg	Google	38
26	Charlene Begley	General Electric	40
12	Sallie Krawcheck	Citigroup	42
42	Liz Smith	Avon Products	44
20	Sue Decker	Yahoo	44
36	Lisa Weber	MetLife	44
40	Kathleen Murphy	ING	44
30	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity	45
4	Angela Braly	Wellpoint	46
45	Melanie Healey	Procter & Gamble	46
44	Pam Nicholson	Enterprise	47
47	Deirdre Connelly	Eli Lilly	47
24	Susan Ivey	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Reynolds American	48
50	Cathie Lesjak	Hewlett-Packard	48
41	Dawn Hudson	PepsiCo	49
11	Ursula Burns	Xerox	49
28	Cece Sutton	Wachovia	49
13	Ann Livermore	Hewlett-Packard	49
15	Anne Sweeney	Walt Disney, Disney-ABC Television Group	49
46	Amy Pascal	Sony	49
9	Andrea Jung	Avon Products	49
37	Claire Brabowski	Toys "R" Us	50
21	Susan Desmond-Hellmann	Genentech	50
32	Carrie Cox	Schering-Plough	50
17	Ginni Rometty	IBM	50
1	Indra Nooyi	PepsiCo	51
33	Linda Dillman	Wal-Mart Stores	51
3	Meg Whitman	eBay	51
25	Ellen Kullman	DuPont	51
23	Amy Brinkley	Bank of America	51
22	Diane Greene	VMware	51
48	Jan Fields	McDonald's	52
49	Julia Stewart	IHOP	52
16	Zoe Cruz	Morgan Stanley	52
31	Carol Meyrowitz	TJX	53
8	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo	53
39	Colleen Goggins	Johnson & Johnson	53
38	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin	53
10	Brenda Barnes	Sara Lee	53
7	Susan Arnold	Procter & Gamble	53
2	Anne Mulcahy	Xerox	54
6	Pat Woertz	Archer Daniels Midland	54
27	Heidi Miller	J.P. Morgan Chase	54
5	Irene Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods	54
14	Christine Poon	Johnson & Johnson	54
18	Judy McGrath	Viacom	55
19	Ann Moore	Time Inc.	57
34	Shelly Lazarus	WPP	60
35	Mary Sammons	Rite Aid	61
43	Cathleen Black	Hearst	63

From the October 15, 2007 issue

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Highest pay

These women are among the highest paid in corporate America.

Rank	Company	2006 total compensation
1	Zoe Cruz	$30 million
2	Susan Decker	$25 million
3	Irene B. Rosenfeld	$19.2 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
43	Cathleen Black	Hearst Magazines
9	Andrea Jung	Avon
34	Shelley Lazarus	WPP
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