Just 2 of the women on this year's list are under 40, but 18 are age 50 or under. Rank Name Company Age 44 Marissa Mayer Google 34 39 Meredith Whitney Meredith Whitney Advisory Group 39 22 Sheryl Sandberg Facebook 40 27 Charlene Begley General Electric 42 30 Sallie Krawcheck Bank Of America 44 29 Liz Smith Avon Products 46 41 Kathleen Murphy Fidelity 46 48 Lauren Zalaznick General Electric 46 12 Safra Catz Oracle 47 28 Abigail Johnson Fidelity 47 15 Melanie Healey Procter & Gamble 48 33 Sue Wagner BlackRock 48 4 Angela Braly Wellpoint 49 34 Pam Nicholson Enterprise 49 37 Deirdre Connelly GlaxoSmithKline 49 38 Gail Boudreaux UnitedHealth 49 40 Lorrie Norrington eBay 49 14 Sheri McCoy Johnson & Johnson 50 26 Susan Ivey Reynolds American 50 42 Cathie Lesjak Hewlett-Packard 50 5 Andrea Jung Avon Products 51 9 Ursula Burns Xerox 51 13 Ann Livermore Hewlett-Packard 51 16 Anne Sweeney Walt Disney 51 49 Amy Pascal Sony Pictures Entertainment 51 11 Ginni Rometty IBM 52 23 Carrie Cox Schering-Plough 52 24 Susan Chambers Wal-Mart 52 36 Claire Babrowski Toys �R� Us 52 1 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo 53 7 Ellen Kullman Dupont 53 45 Lynn Elsenhans Sunoco 53 32 Jan Fields McDonald�s 54 50 Maggie Wilderotter Frontier Communications 54 6 Oprah Winfrey Harpo 55 10 Brenda Barnes Sara Lee 55 18 Carol Meyrowitz TJX 55 19 Colleen Goggins Johnson & Johnson 55 35 Joanne Maguire Lockheed Martin 55 2 Irene Rosenfeld Kraft Foods 56 3 Pat Woertz Archer Daniels Midland 56 17 Heidi Miller J.P. Morgan Chase 56 25 Barbara Desoer Bank of America 56 20 Judy McGrath Viacom 57 21 Ann Moore Time Warner 59 43 Linda Hudson BAE Systems 59 47 Bonnie Hammer General Electric 59 8 Carol Bartz Yahoo 61 31 Christina Gold Western Union 62 46 Cathie Black Hearst Magazines 65 From the Sept. 28, 2009 issue

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