50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2005

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FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Full list

Rank	Name	Company
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.

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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