FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 38 (2004 rank: 34)
Tempstaff
Japan
President
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| Since starting Tempstaff 32 years ago, Shinohara, 71, has built it into Japan's second-largest job-placement company, with revenue last year of $1.2 billion. Tempstaff recently opened an office in South Korea and has begun providing career-development advice to workers over 60. |
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From the November 14, 2005 issue
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Perennial powers |
| These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998. |
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