FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business
FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Age
20 Charlene Begley General Electric 39
7 Sallie Krawcheck Citigroup 40
35 Lisa Weber MetLife 42
40 Susan Decker Yahoo 42
49 Safra Catz Oracle 43
8 Abigail Johnson Fidelity 43
36 Lois Quam United Health Group 44
33 Stacey Snider GE 44
30 Mary Minnick Coca-Cola 45
43 Claire Watts Wal-Mart 45
24 Susan Ivey Reynolds American 46
41 Dawn Hudson PepsiCo 47
48 Ursula Burns Xerox 47
42 Amy Pascal Sony 47
5 Andrea Jung Avon 47
16 Anne Sweeney Walt Disney 47
18 Ann Livermore Hewlett-Packard 47
37 Carrie Cox Schering-Plough 48
23 Susan Desmond-Hellmann Genentech 48
15 Ginni Rometty IBM 48
1 Meg Whitman eBay 49
29 Linda Dillman Wal-Mart 49
46 Ellen Kullman DuPont 49
11 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo 49
25 Amy Woods Brinkley Bank of America 49
19 Zoe Cruz Morgan Stanley 50
3 Brenda Barnes Sara Lee 51
28 Heidi Miller J.P. Morgan Chase 51
50 Kathy Cassidy General Electric 51
45 Ellyn McColgan Fidelity 51
4 Oprah Winfrey Harpo 51
17 Susan Arnold Procter & Gamble 51
38 Nancy Peretsman Allen & Co. 51
10 Judy McGrath Viacom 52
6 Pat Woertz Chevron 52
27 Irene Rosenfeld PepsiCo 52
2 Anne Mulcahy Xerox 52
14 Pat Russo Lucent Technologies 53
12 Christine Poon Johnson & Johnson 53
47 Barbara Desoer Bank of America 53
44 Vivian Banta Prudential Financial 55
32 Doreen Toben Verizon 55
13 Ann Moore Time Inc. 55
9 Karen Katen Pfizer 56
22 Anne Stevens Ford Motor 56
31 Carol Bartz Autodesk 57
26 Shelly Lazarus WPP 58
39 Mary Sammons Rite Aid 59
34 Cathleen Black Hearst Magazines 61
21 Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 64
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, 2005.
1 Meg Whitman $29.9 million
2 Andrea Jung $22.1 million
3 (tie) Suzanne Johnson $17.5 million
3 (tie) Zoe Cruz $17.5 million
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Young and powerful
Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.
1 Charlene Begley 39
2 Sallie Krawcheck 40
3 Susan Decker 42
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Perennial powers
These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998.
1 Oprah Winfrey Harpo
2 Andrea Jung Avon
3 Pat Russo Lucent
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