The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. Jewish women take the lead.

By Maximillien de Lafayette

Listed in no particular order. Listed by name, country and age.

1. Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan, 42 . 2. Hillary Clinton - US, 48 . 3. Queen Elizabeth II - UK, 70 . 4. Margaret Thatcher - UK, 70 . 5. Alice Mitchell Rivlin - US, 65 . 6. Tansu Ciller - Turkey, 49 . 7. Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway, 57 . 8. Wu Yi - China, 57 . 9. Germaine Greer - Australia, 57 . 10. Oprah Winfrey - US, 42 . 11. Sadako Ogata - Japan, 68 . 12. Christine Todd Whitman - US, 49 . 13. Anson Chang - Hong Kong, 55 . 14. Katharine Graham - US, 78 . 15. Laura d'Andrea Tyson - US, 49 . 16. Rachel Lomax - UK, 50 . 17. Madeleine Korbel Albright - US, 58 . 18. Tutut Suharto - Indonesia, 47 . 19. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma, 50 . 20. Mary Robinson - Ireland, 51 . 21. Vidgis Finnbogadottir - Iceland, 66 . 22. Janet Reno - US, 58 . 23. Nafis Sadik - Pakistan, 61 . 24. Hanan Ashrawi - Palestine, 49 . 25. Queen Beatrix - The Netherlands, 58 . 26. Charlotte Beers - US, 59 . 27. Sheila Widnall - US, 58 . 28. Sheila Maureen Copps - Canada, 43 . 29. Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnam, 69 . 30. Dianne Feinstein - US, 63 . 31. Violeta Chamorro - Nicaragua, 65 . 32. Chandrika Kumaratunga - Sri Lanka, 50 . 33. Begum Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh, 50 . 34. Rita Sussmuth - Germany, 59 . 35. Mirjana Markovic - former Yugoslavia, 53 . 36. Christine Ockrent - France, 51 . 37. Sherry Lansing - US, 51 . 38. Gloria Steinem - US, 61 . 39. Jodie Foster - US, 33 . 40. Estee Lauder - US, 87 . 41. Rosabeth Moss Kanter - US, 53 . 42. Pauline Green - UK, 47 . 43. Barbara Walters - US, 64 . 44. Sandra Day O'Connor - US, 66 . 45. Anita Roddick - UK, 53 . 46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US, 63 . 47. Nadine Gordimer - South Africa, 73 . 48. Tina Brown - US, 42 . 49. Princess Diana - UK, 34 . 50. Susanna Agnelli - Italy, 73 . 51. Carol Bellamy - US, 54 . 52. Liliana Ferraro - Italy, 52 . 53. Carol Galley - UK, 47 . 54. Madonna - US, 38 . 55. Countess Marion Donhoff - Germany, 86 . 56. Jana Wendt - Australia, 39 . 57. Sylvia Toth - The Netherlands, 52 . 58. Imelda Marcos - Philippines, 67 . 59. Queen Sirikit - Thailand, 63 . 60. Irene Pivetti - Italy, 33 . 61. Cheryl Kernot - Australia, 47 . 62. Catherine Bertini - US, 46 . 63. Ritt Bjerregaard - Denmark, 54 . 64. Elizabeth Dole - US, 59 . 65. Elizabeth Dowdeswell - Canada, 50 66. Takako Doi - Japan, 67 . 67. Anita DeFrantz - US, 43 . 68. Donna Karan - US, 47 . 69. Miriam Defensor Santiago - Philippines, 51 . 70. Helen Gurley Brown - US, 74 . 71. Elisabeth Guigou - France, 49 . 72. Janet Holmes a Court - Australia, 52 . 73. Bodil Nyboe Andersen - Denmark, 55 . 74. Heide Simonis - Germany, 52 . 75. Jutta Limbach - Germany, 61 . 76. Hanna Suchocka - Poland, 50 . 77. Wandira Kazibwe - Uganda, 42 . 78. Simone Veil - France, 68 . 79. Jennie George - Australia, 48 . 80. Rosalyn Higgins - UK, 58 . 81. Dame Leonie Kramer - Australia, 71. 82. Rene Saez - Venezuela, 34 . 83. Megawati Sukarno - Indonesia, 49 . 84. Erika Emmerich - Germany, 52 . 85. Dai Qing - China, 55 . 86. Sirkka Hamalainen - Finland, 57 . 87. Roseanne - US, 42 . 88. Winnie Mandela - South Africa, 61 . 89. Xuxa - Brazil, 43. 90. Irina Khakamada - Russia, 40 . 91. Helen Clark - New Zealand, 46 . 92. Esther Koplowitz - Spain, 44 . 93. Alicia Koplowitz - Spain, 42 . 94. Tatyana Mitkova - Russia, 40 . 95. Ilda Boccassini - Italy, 46 . 96. Francoise Baree-Sinoussi - France, 48 . 97. Emily Lau - China, 43 . 98. Mother Teresa - India, 85 . 99. Betty Boothroyd - UK, 66 . 100. Christy Turlington - US, 27.