Washington, Aug 22 — India's ruling United Progressive Alliance
chairperson Sonia Gandhi has been ranked sixth, a notch ahead of US
first lady Michelle Obama, in the Forbes magazine list of 100 powerful
women.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is ranked the most powerful
in the world for the second year in a row in the annual list dominated
by politicians, businesswomen and media figures.
US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton is placed second, followed by Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff, making the top three spots unchanged from that of last
year.
Besides Sonia Gandhi, the list released Wednesday features three other Indians.
Padmasree
Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer, Cisco Systems, and
Chanda Kochhar, managing director and CEO, ICICI Bank, are ranked 58th
and 59th, while Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder and chair, Biocon Ltd, is
placed 80th.
PepsiCo's Indian-American chairperson and CEO Indra Nooyi is ranked 12th.
The
list named women involved in policymaking, entertainment, technology
and nonprofit organisations, among other fields. They were ranked
according to influence, the amount of money they control or earn, and
media presence.
"These power women exert influence in very
different ways and to very different ends, and all with very different
impacts on the global community," said Moira Forbes, president and
publisher of ForbesWoman.
Also in the top five were Melinda Gates,
co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Microsoft
Corp co-founder Bill Gates, and Jill Abramson, executive editor of the
New York Times.
US first lady Michelle Obama, who had topped the list in 2010, was ranked No.7.
The
average age of the 100 powerful women from 28 countries was 55. They
had a combined 90 million Twitter followers, Forbes said.
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