مجله فوربز اعلام کرد آنگلا مرکل صدرالعظم آلمان در صدر فهرست یکصد زن برتر جهان ایستاده ولی بر خلاف سال گذشته، نام هیچ زن ایرانی در این سیاهه دیده نمی شود و فقط کریستین امانپور، خبرنگار آمریکایی ایرانی تبار سی ان ان هفتاد و چهارم شده است. معیارهای این مجله برای انتخاب زنان قدرتمند ترکیبی از پوشش رسانه ای و تاثیر اقتصادی بوده است
سایر زنان آسیایی امسال بخت بلندی نداشتند. فائزه هاشمی، دختر اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی، و شیرین عبادی، برنده جایزه صلح نوبل در این فهرست دیده نمی شوند. همچنین مگاواتی سوکارنوپوتری، رییس جمهور سابق اندونزی، بعد از آن که در انتخابات شکست خورد، از فهرست یکصد زن برتر جهان حذف شده است. وی سال پیش هشتم شده بود. ملیندا گیتس، همسر نیکوکار بنیانگذار مایکروسافت، به اتفاق بیل گیتس بنگاهی خیریه با سرمایه ۲۸ میلیارد دلاری دارد و در رده بندی فوربز بیست و چهارم شده است. خانم گیتس عضو هیات مدیره واشنگتن پست نیز است. 1 | Angela Merkel | Chancellor | Germany | 2 | Wu Yi | Vice premier | China | 3 | Ho Ching | Chief executive, Temasek Holdings | Singapore | 4 | Condoleezza Rice | Secretary of State | U.S. | 5 | Indra K. Nooyi | Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo | U.S. | 6 | Sonia Gandhi | President, Congress Party | India | 7 | Cynthia Carroll | Chief executive, Anglo American | U.K. | 8 | Patricia A. Woertz | Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland | U.S. | 9 | Irene Rosenfeld | Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods | U.S. | 10 | Patricia Russo | Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent | U.S. | 11 | Michèle Alliot-Marie | Minister for the Interior and overseas territories | France | 12 | Christine Lagarde | Minister of economy, finance and employment | France | 13 | Anne M. Mulcahy | Chairman, chief executive, Xerox | U.S. | 14 | Anne Lauvergeon | Chief executive, Areva | France | 15 | Mary Sammons | Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid Corp. | U.S. | 16 | Angela Braly | Chief executive, president, WellPoint | U.S. | 17 | Marjorie Scardino | Chief executive, Pearson PLC | U.K. | 18 | Wu Xiaoling | Deputy governor, People's Bank of China | China | 19 | Brenda Barnes | Chairman, chief executive, Sara Lee Corp. | U.S. | 20 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Supreme court justice | U.S. | 21 | Oprah Winfrey | Chairman, Harpo | U.S. | 22 | Margaret Whitman | Chief executive, president, Ebay | U.S. | 23 | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | U.K. | 24 | Melinda Gates | Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | U.S. | 25 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | U.S. senator, New York | U.S. |
26 | Nancy Pelosi | Speaker of the House, House of Representatives | U.S. | 27 | Michelle Bachelet | President | Chile | 28 | Safra A. Catz | President, chief financial officer, Oracle | U.S. | 29 | Susan E. Arnold | President, global business units, Procter & Gamble | U.S. | 30 | Andrea Jung | Chairman, chief executive, Avon Products | U.S. | 31 | Judy McGrath | Chairman, chief executive, MTV Networks | U.S. | 32 | Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding | Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. | 33 | Marina Berlusconi | Chairman, Fininvest Group | Italy | 34 | Zoe Cruz | Co-president, Morgan Stanley | U.S. | 35 | Amy Pascal | Cochair, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures | U.S. | 36 | Ann Livermore | Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard | U.S. | 37 | Margaret Chan | Director-general, World Health Organization | China | 38 | Helen Clark | Prime minister | New Zealand | 39 | Tzipora Livni | Foreign affairs minister | Israel | 40 | Ana Patricia Botin | Chairman, Banesto | Spain | 41 | Renetta McCann | Chief executive, Starcom MediaVest Group | U.S. | 42 | Susan M. Ivey | Chairman, chief executive, president, Reynolds American | U.S. | 43 | Yang Mianmian | Chairman, Haier | China | 44 | Linda Z. Cook | Executive director, gas & power, Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands | 45 | Janet L. Robinson | Chief executive, president, The New York Times Company | U.S. | 46 | Christine Poon | Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson | U.S. | 47 | Drew Gilpin Faust | President, Harvard university | U.S. | 48 | Paula Rosput Reynolds | Chief executive, president, Safeco | U.S. | 49 | Nancy Tellem | President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment, CBS Corp. | U.S. | 50 | Tarja Halonen | President | Finland |
51 | Gloria Arroyo | President, Philipines | Philippines | 52 | Dawn Hudson | Chief executive, president, Pepsi-Cola North America | U.S. | 53 | Nancy McKinstry | Chairman, chief executive, Wolters Kluwer | Netherlands | 54 | Clara Furse | Chief executive, London Stock Exchange | U.K. | 55 | Meredith Vieira | Host, The Today Show | U.S. | 56 | Christina Gold | Chief executive, president, Western Union | U.S. | 57 | Ann Moore | Chairman, chief executive, Time Inc. | U.S. | 58 | Mary McAleese | President | Ireland | 59 | Neelie Kroes | Commissioner for competition, European Union | Netherlands | 60 | Laura Bush | First Lady | U.S. | 61 | Susan Desmond-Hellmann | President, product development, Genentech | U.S. | 62 | Diane Sawyer | Co-anchor, Good Morning America | U.S. | 63 | Katie Couric | Anchor, managing editor, CBS Evening News | U.S. | 64 | Sharon Allen | Chairman, Deloitte & Touche | U.S. | 65 | Guler Sabanci | Chairman, Sabanci Holding | Turkey | 66 | Angela Ahrendts | Chief executive, Burberry | U.K. | 67 | Dora Bakoyannis | Foreign affairs minister | Greece | 68 | Zaha Hadid | Founder, head architect, Zaha Hadid Architects | U.K. | 69 | Antonia Ax:son Johnson | Chairman, owner, Axel Johnson AB Group | Sweden | 70 | Beth Brooke | Global vice chairman, Ernst & Young | U.S. | 71 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Nobel Peace laureate, Democratically elected leader of Myanmar, 1990 | Myanmar | 72 | Maha Al-Ghunaim | Chairman, managing director, Global Investment House | Kuwait | 73 | Colleen Barrett | President, Southwest Airlines | U.S. | 74 | Christiane Amanpour | Chief international correspondent, CNN | U.K. | 75 | Yan Cheung | Chairman, Nine Dragons Paper | China |
76 | Rosalia Mera | Cofounder, Inditex | Spain | 77 | Anne Sweeney | President, Disney-ABC Television Group; Co-Chair, Disney | U.S. | 78 | Marilyn Carlson Nelson | Chairman, chief executive, Carlson Companies | U.S. | 79 | Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned | First Lady | Qatar | 80 | Maureen Chiquet | Chief executive, Chanel | France | 81 | Portia Simpson Miller | Prime minister | Jamaica | 82 | Queen Rania | Queen | Jordan | 83 | Galia Maor | Chief executive, president, Bank Leumi Group | Israel | 84 | Georgina Rinehart | Chairman, Hancock Prospecting | Australia | 85 | Christie Hefner | Chairman, chief executive, Playboy Enterprises | U.S. | 86 | Stephanie A. Burns | Chairman, chief executive, Dow Corning | U.S. | 87 | Stacey Snider | Co-chairman, chief executive, DreamWorks SKG | U.S. | 88 | Imre Barmanbek | Deputy chairman, Dogan Holding | Turkey | 89 | Luisa Diogo | Prime minister | Mozambique | 90 | Chu Lam Yiu | Chairman, Huabao International Holdings | China | 91 | Giuliana Benetton | Director, Edizione Holding, The Benetton Group | Italy | 92 | Dr. Sima Samar | Chairman, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission | Afghanistan | 93 | Dong Mingzhu | Vice chairman, president, Gree Electric Appliances | China | 94 | Cathleen Black | President, Hearst Magazine | U.S. | 95 | Mary West | Cofounder, West Corp. | U.S. | 96 | Rochelle Lazarus | Chairman, chief executive, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide | U.S. | 97 | Vidya Chhabria | Chairman, Jumbo Group | United Arab Emirates | 98 | Orit Gadiesh | Chairman, Bain & Co. | U.S. | 99 | Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi | Minister of the economy | United Arab Emirates | 100 | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf | President | Liberia |
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