50 Most Powerful Women in Business

FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Age

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