FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women in Business
FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Full list
1 Meg Whitman eBay
2 Anne Mulcahy Xerox
3 Brenda Barnes Sara Lee
4 Oprah Winfrey Harpo
5 Andrea Jung Avon
6 Pat Woertz Chevron
7 Sallie Krawcheck Citigroup
8 Abigail Johnson Fidelity
9 Karen Katen Pfizer
10 Judy McGrath Viacom
11 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo
12 Christine Poon Johnson & Johnson
13 Ann Moore Time Inc.
14 Pat Russo Lucent Technologies
15 Ginni Rometty IBM
16 Anne Sweeney Walt Disney
17 Susan Arnold Procter & Gamble
18 Ann Livermore Hewlett-Packard
19 Zoe Cruz Morgan Stanley
20 Charlene Begley General Electric
21 Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
22 Anne Stevens Ford Motor
23 Susan Desmond-Hellmann Genentech
24 Susan Ivey Reynolds American
25 Amy Woods Brinkley Bank of America
26 Shelly Lazarus WPP
27 Irene Rosenfeld PepsiCo
28 Heidi Miller J.P. Morgan Chase
29 Linda Dillman Wal-Mart
30 Mary Minnick Coca-Cola
31 Carol Bartz Autodesk
32 Doreen Toben Verizon
33 Stacey Snider GE
34 Cathleen Black Hearst Magazines
35 Lisa Weber MetLife
36 Lois Quam United Health Group
37 Carrie Cox Schering-Plough
38 Nancy Peretsman Allen & Co.
39 Mary Sammons Rite Aid
40 Susan Decker Yahoo
41 Dawn Hudson PepsiCo
42 Amy Pascal Sony
43 Claire Watts Wal-Mart
44 Vivian Banta Prudential Financial
45 Ellyn McColgan Fidelity
46 Ellen Kullman DuPont
47 Barbara Desoer Bank of America
48 Ursula Burns Xerox
49 Safra Catz Oracle
50 Kathy Cassidy General Electric
From the November 14, 2005 issue
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
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
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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