Adirée Consulting: Most Powerful Women in the World

After much careful consideration, Forbes has released their list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. Many factors go into exactly what earns you a spot on this list including company salaries, net worth, news hits, media appearances, and even things like how many followers they have on Twitter and fans on Facebook. Not so surprisingly, the majority of the women that make the cut are political figures, and CEO’s of Fortune 500 Companies. Lady Gaga just fell short of the top 10 coming in at #11. Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour, made the cut at #69 and designer and CEO Diane von Furstenburg made the list at #91. I included the top 10 women on the list below, but if you’d like to take a look at the complete list you can find it here.

1	Angela Merkel Chancellor	57	Germany	Politics
2	Hillary Clinton Secretary of State	63	United States	Politics
3	Dilma Rousseff President	63	Brazil	Politics
4	Indra Nooyi Chief Executive, PepsiCo	55	United States	Business
5	Sheryl Sandberg COO, Facebook	42	United States	Business
6	Melinda Gates Cofounder, Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	47	United States	Non-Profit
7	Sonia Gandhi President	64	India	Politics
8	Michelle Obama First Lady	47	United States	Politics
9	Christine Lagarde Managing Director, International Monetary Fund	55	France	Non-Profit
10	Irene Rosenfeld CEO, Kraft Foods	58	United States	Business

Source: Forbes