Rank | Name | Occupation | Age | Country |
1 | Condoleezza Rice | National Security Adviser, Bush Administration | 49 | U.S. |
2 | Wu Yi | Vice Premier, former Vice Mayor of Beijing | 65 | China |
3 | Sonia Gandhi | President, Congress Party | 57 | India |
4 | Laura Bush | U.S. First Lady | 57 | U.S. |
5 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | U.S. Senator | 56 | U.S. |
6 | Sandra Day O'Connor | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | 74 | U.S. |
7 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | 71 | U.S. |
8 | Megawati Sukarnoputri | President, Indonesia | 57 | Indonesia |
9 | Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | President, Philippines | 57 | Phillipines |
10 | Carleton "Carly" S. Fiorina | Chair and Chief Executive, Hewlett-Packard | 49 | U.S. |
11 | Nancy Pelosi | Minority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives | 64 | U.S. |
12 | Cherie Booth Blair | U.K. First Lady | 49 | U.K. |
13 | Queen Rania Al-Abdullah | Queen of Jordan | 34 | Jordan |
14 | Begum Khaleda Zia | Prime Minister of Bangladesh | 58 | Bangladesh |
15 | Abigail Johnson | President, Fidelity Management & Research | 41 | U.S. |
16 | Susan Arnold | Vice Chair, Global Beauty Care, Procter & Gamble | 50 | U.S. |
17 | Christine Poon | Worldwide Chair, Medicines and Nutritionals, Johnson & Johnson | 51 | U.S. |
18 | Karen Hughes | Adviser and former counselor to President George W. Bush | 48 | U.S. |
19 | Marjorie Magner | Chair and Chief Executive, Global Consumer Group, Citigroup | 55 | U.S. |
20 | Ann S. Moore | Chair and Chief Executive, Time Inc. | 54 | U.S. |
21 | Margaret Thatcher | Former U.K. Prime Minister | 79 | U.K. |
22 | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen of the United Kingdom | 78 | U.K. |
23 | Lynne Cheney | U.S. Second Lady | 63 | U.S. |
24 | Ho Ching | Chief Executive and Executive Director, Temasek Holdings | 51 | Singapore |
25 | Barbara Walters | News Correspondent and Anchor, ABC's 20/20 | 74 | U.S. |