50 Most Powerful Women in Business

FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Full list

Rank	Name	Company
1	Indra Nooyi	PepsiCo
2	Irene Rosenfeld	Kraft Foods
3	Pat Woertz	Archer Daniels Midland
4	Angela Braly	Wellpoint
5	Andrea Jung	Avon Products
6	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo
7	Ellen Kullman	Dupont
8	Carol Bartz	Yahoo
9	Ursula Burns	Xerox
10	Brenda Barnes	Sara Lee
11	Ginni Rometty	IBM
12	Safra Catz	Oracle
13	Ann Livermore	Hewlett-Packard
14	Sheri McCoy	Johnson & Johnson
15	Melanie Healey	Procter & Gamble
16	Anne Sweeney	Walt Disney
17	Heidi Miller	J.P. Morgan Chase
18	Carol Meyrowitz	TJX
19	Colleen Goggins	Johnson & Johnson
20	Judy McGrath	Viacom
21	Ann Moore	Time Warner
22	Sheryl Sandberg	Facebook
23	Carrie Cox	Schering-Plough
24	Susan Chambers	Wal-Mart
25	Barbara Desoer	Bank of America
26	Susan Ivey	Reynolds American
27	Charlene Begley	General Electric
28	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity
29	Liz Smith	Avon Products
30	Sallie Krawcheck	Bank Of America
31	Christina Gold	Western Union
32	Jan Fields	McDonald�s
33	Sue Wagner	BlackRock
34	Pam Nicholson	Enterprise
35	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin
36	Claire Babrowski	Toys �R� Us
37	Deirdre Connelly	GlaxoSmithKline
38	Gail Boudreaux	UnitedHealth
39	Meredith Whitney	Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
40	Lorrie Norrington	eBay
41	Kathleen Murphy	Fidelity
42	Cathie Lesjak	Hewlett-Packard
43	Linda Hudson	BAE Systems
44	Marissa Mayer	Google
45	Lynn Elsenhans	Sunoco
46	Cathie Black	Hearst Magazines
47	Bonnie Hammer	General Electric
48	Lauren Zalaznick	General Electric
49	Amy Pascal	Sony Pictures Entertainment
50	Maggie Wilderotter	Frontier Communications

From the Sept. 28, 2009 issue

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Top 3

Name	2008 total compensation
Safra Catz	$42.4 million
Linda Chen	$23.9 million
Sharen J. Turney	$20.3 million

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Name	Age
Marissa Mayer	34
Meredith Whitney	39
Sheryl Sandberg	40

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Gail Kelly	2
Marjorie Scardino	3

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