FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business

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FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Age

Rank	Name	Company	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.

Rank	Company	2004 total compensation
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.

Rank	Name	Age
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.

Rank	Name	Company
1	Oprah Winfrey	Harpo
2	Andrea Jung	Avon
3	Pat Russo	Lucent
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