But a few clearly stand out. The Forbes annual list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful Women" is out (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/11/06women_The-100-Most-Powerful-Women_Rank.html). Here are the top 5:
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (last year's #1)
- China's Vice Premier Wu Yi
- Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi
- Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy
The rest are an impressive hodge-podge of corporate, info-tainment and government heavyweights, including the Presidents of Chile, the Phillipines, Finland and Liberia; the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Jamaica and South Korea; and Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
Corporate types included CEOs and top executives at Morgan-Stanley, Goldman-Sachs, Kraft, Rite Aid, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, eBay, Proctor and Gamble, Lucent Technologies, Johnson and Johnson, Time, MTV, Sony, Paramount, The New York Times, and Southwest Airlines, to name a few.
America's TV divas took their places: Oprah, Katie, Diane Sawyer and "Today Show" newcomer Meredith Vieira - in that order. Interestingly, CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour made the list, but the Dean of TV Newswoman Barbara Walters did not.
I got a chuckle out of #14 Oprah outranking Sen. Hillary Clinton (#18), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (#32), First Lady Laura Bush(#43) and the highest ranking woman in Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (#48).
Maybe Oprah should run for President?
Oh -- and why in the WORLD wasn't my mother on that list?
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