FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Dawn Robertson Rank: 37 (2004 rank: 30)
Company: Myer Based in: Australia Title: CEO
The Alabama-born boss of Aussie retailing giant Myer recently resorted to e-mailing her 22,000 employees to douse rumors that she was heading home. But after profits fell 46% in the fiscal year ended July 31, to $29 million on sales of $2.5 billion, and Robertson failed to meet incentive targets, some shareholders of Myer's parent, Coles Myer, are gunning for the 50-year-old exec. Robertson, the highest-paid woman in corporate Australia, took home more than $2 million last year.
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.
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.
