The 99 Most Powerful Women in the World. Jewish women take the lead (2004-2005): 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. Late 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. Late 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. Christy Turlington - US, 27. 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 - 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. Late Mother Teresa - India, 85 . 99. Betty Boothroyd - UK, 66 . 100.
SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL JEWISH WOMEN
Christine Todd Whitman (USA) Rachel Lomax (UK) Esther Koplowitz (SPAIN)
USA MOST POWERFUL WOMEN (National Influence, 2004-2005): Listed in no particular order
Laura Bush, First Lady, Elaine Chao, US Secretary of Labor. .Lynne Cheney, Second Lady. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, US Supreme Court, Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President, White House. Margaret LaMontagne, Director of Domestic Policy Council, White House. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior. Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice, US Supreme Court. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser. Ann M. Veneman, US Secretary of Agriculture. Christie Todd Whitman, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
ON CAPITOL HILL: Listed in no particular order
Hillary Clinton, US Senator, New York. Jennifer Dunn, US Representative, Washington State. Susan Hirschmann, Chief of staff, House majority leader Tom DeLay. Kay Bailey Hutchison, US Senator, Texas. Eddie Bernice Johnson, US Representative, Texas; chair, Congressional Black Caucus. Nita Lowey, US Representative, New York; chairwoman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Barbara A. Mikulski, US Senator, Maryland. Patty Murray, US Senator, Washington; chair, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. Pam Pryor, Chief of staff, House Republican Conference. Olympia Snowe, US Senator, Maine. Ellen Tauscher, US Representative, California; vice chair, Democratic Leadership Council.
AMERICA WOMEN OF REGIONAL POWERS: Listed in no particular order
Katherine Hanley, Chairman, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Charlene Drew Jarvis, President, Southeastern University. Iris Metts, School superintendent, Prince George's County. Constance A. Morella, US Representative, Montgomery County; chairwoman, subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate to Congress, District of Columbia. Alice Rivlin, Senior fellow for economic studies, Brookings Institution. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant governor, Maryland.