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50 Most Powerful Women in Business

Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of  America’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business highlights the women who have a “secret weapon” in the business world. Fortune ranks the women not on their salaries, but by their past successes and ability to effect change in their companies. Read the full article…

Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

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