CNNFortune recently identified the fifty most powerful female business leaders in the world.  The top fifteen are listed below.  Click on the source line to see the entire list.

CEO, COO, or CFO                                          Company

1.  Mary Barra, CEO                                     General Motors

2.  Ginni Rometty. CEO                                  IBM

3.  Indra Nooyi, CEO                                     PepsiCo

4.  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster, CEO       Petrobras (a huge oil company in Brazil)

5.  Ellen Kullman, CEO                                   DuPont

6.  Irene Rosenfeld. CEO                               Mondelez International

7.  Marillyn Hewson, CEO                             Lockheed Martin

8.  Meg Whitman, CEO                                  Hewlett-Packard

9.  Patricia Woertz, CEO                                Archer Daniels Midland

10.  Gail Kelly, CEO                                        Westpac (2^nd largest bank in Australia)

11.  Sheryl Sandberg, COO                           Facebook

12.  Phebe Novakovic, CEO                          General Dynamics

13.  Safra Catz, CFO                                       Oracle

14.  Marissa Mayer, CEO                               Yahoo

15.  Alison Cooper, CEO                                Imperial Tobacco

Source:  http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-most-powerful-women.fortune/index.html?iid=HP_River