As with every
year, four metrics were used: money (either net worth, company revenues, or
GDP); media presence; spheres of influence; and impact, analyzed both within
the context of each woman’s field (media, technology, business, philanthropy,
politics, and finance) and outside of it.
These women are
the smartest and toughest female business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors,
scientists, philanthropists and CEOs making their mark in the world today.
They’re women who are building billion-dollar brands, calling the shots in the
financial markets, and crisscrossing the globe to broker international
agreements and provide aid.
Their
accomplishments are formidable on their own, and even more so given how hard it
can be to establish inroads into industries and job titles traditionally
dominated by men. Statistics on women in positions of power remain bleak.
According to the latest survey by Catalyst, a non-profit that tracks gender
parity in the workplace, women occupy a measly 4% of corner offices at S&P
500 companies. And they hold only 25% of
executive or senior-level jobs in those same firms.
This
election-year “2016 Global Leaders” list honours these women, who join seasoned
pros such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, number-one Power Woman for six
years running.
With the
advent of more women behind the presidential desk, we had to make some tough
decisions most notably, cutting the Celebrities category to make room. And so
new leaders replace icons, with a spate of new countries joining the list.
Angela Merkel
Chancellor,
Germany
If there is a
single leader able to defy existential economic and political challenges to the
European Union, from edges and core, it has been sixty-one years old German
Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her successes on the one hand to convince ailing EU
brethren such as Greece and Spain to aspire to German fiscal and legal logic,
and on the other hand to persuade Germany's own constituents and political egos
to buy in to her solutions, is illustrated by a European Union that in 2016
remains standing.
Hillary Clinton
Presidential
candidate, United States
If Sixty-eight
years old Hillary Clinton is elected president in November, it will be a
historic milestone in a career already defined by firsts. She is the first and
only First Lady to run for public office, the first woman to be elected senator
from New York, and the first woman to advance this far in a presidential race.
Clinton continues to hold the lead in a prolonged primary, despite
"emailgate" revelations that she used her private email address and
server while at the State Department.
Janet Yellen
Chair,
Federal Reserve, Washington, United States
Federal
Reserve chair Janet Yellen has become known for steadiness, not inscrutability:
The sixty-nine years old indicated throughout 2015 that she would raise interest
rates, and last December, for the first time since June 2006, interest rates
rose. Reminding markets again in late May that the Fed's job is to suppress
unemployment and inflation, she stated, simply, that rates may rise again in
July. Performing neither as wizard nor innovator, instead Yellen asserts her
power by way of plain sentences and easy logic -- making it easy to forget that
the Yale- and Brown-educated economist is the world's top market-mover.
Source
Forbes
women power!!!!!!!!!!!
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