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	Patricia Woertz	Archer Daniels Midland
4	Angela Braly	WellPoint
5	Andrea Jung	Avon Products
6	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo and OWN
7	Ellen Kullman	DuPont
8	Ginni Rometty	IBM
9	Ursula Burns	Xerox
10	Carol Bartz	Yahoo
11	Safra Catz	Oracle
12	Sherilyn McCoy	Johnson & Johnson
13	Melanie Healey	Procter & Gamble
14	Ann Livermore	Hewlett-Packard
15	Anne Sweeney	Walt Disney
16	Sheryl Sandberg	Facebook
17	Carol Meyrowitz	TJX Cos.
18	Judy McGrath	Viacom
19	Barbara Desoer	Bank of America
20	Charlene Begley	GE
21	Abigail Johnson	Fidelity
22	Susan Ivey	Reynolds American
23	Susan Chambers	Wal-Mart Stores
24	Sallie Krawcheck	Bank of America
25	Jan Fields	McDonald's
26	Susan Wagner	BlackRock
27	Deirdre Connelly	GlaxoSmithKline
28	Cathie Lesjak	Hewlett-Packard
29	Pamela Nicholson	Enterprise Holdings
30	Mary Callahan Erdoes	J.P. Morgan Chase
31	Joanne Maguire	Lockheed Martin
32	Marillyn Hewson	Lockheed Martin
33	Linda Gooden	Lockheed Martin
34	Gail Boudreaux	UnitedHealth Group
35	Rosalind Brewer	Wal-Mart Stores
36	Kathleen Murphy	Fidelity Personal Investing
37	Linda Hudson	BAE Systems
38	Meredith Whitney	Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
39	Gina Drosos	Procter & Gamble
40	Maggie Wilderotter	Frontier Communications
41	Lynn Elsenhans	Sunoco
42	Marissa Mayer	Google
43	Susan Wojcicki	Google
44	Lorrie Norrington	eBay
45	Bonnie Hammer	GE
46	Lauren Zalaznick	GE
47	Amy Pascal	Sony
48	Shari Ballard	Best Buy
49	Phebe Novakovic	General Dynamics
50	Katie Cotton	Apple

From the October 18, 2010 issue

Name	2009 total compensation
Carol Bartz	$47.2 million
Safra Catz	$36.4 million
Carrie Cox	$23 million

Name	Age
Marissa Mayer	35
Meredith Whitney	40
Sheryl Sandberg	41

Name	Rank
Cynthia Carroll	1
Gail Kelly	2
Marjorie Scardino	3

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