FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 4
(2004 Rank: 6)
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Harpo
Chairman
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| Oprah's awesome cultural influence keeps waxing. Her talk show, in its 20th year, had more than nine million daily viewers last season. Her newest magazine, O at Home, is a hit. And she will shortly make her Broadway debut as a producer of The Color Purple. |
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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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