GIRL POWER! Forbes Have Released Its List Of The World’s Most Powerful Women In 2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the crown in Forbes’ annual list of the worlds most powerful women for the sixth consecutive year.
The list honors the smartest and toughest female business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, philanthropists and CEOs. Using four key metrics to determine the list, Forbes calculates money (either net worth, company revenues, or GDP); media presence; spheres of influence; and impact, an analysis within the context of each woman’s field (media, technology, business, philanthropy, politics, and finance) and outside of it.
Angela Merkel’s sixth straight placing at number one comes after she was awarded with the honor of Time Magazine person of the year in 2015, the first woman to do so in over 29 years (read more here).
Mining magnate, Gina Rinehart is Australia’s only representative on the list, coming in at 51 this year. That follows placing 37th last year and 66th in 2014, despite her estimated wealth remaining at levels higher than $6 Billion.
There was further contention with this years placing, with Forbes opting to dump Taylor Swift, as the organisation steered away from using celebrities. The publication stressed its deliberate aim to recognise women who are “calling the shots in the financial markets, and crisscrossing the globe to broker international agreements and provide aid.”
Soz T-Swiz!
According to Forbes, statistics on women in positions of power remain fairly bleak with the latest survey by Catalyst, a nonprofit that tracks gender parity in the workplace finding “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.”
That being said, Forbes quotes the Pew Research Center’s findings that the number of women who are world leaders, presidents or heads of state have more than doubled on 2015. A positive trend on the progress that has been made in a short period of time.
The 10 Most Powerful Women Of 2016
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1. Angela Merkel
Chancellor, Germany
