Photos: Forbes The world's most powerful women

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Forbes has come up with its 2010 list the world's most powerful women and they include heads of state and first ladies, bankers and cultural icons, CEOs and entrepreneurial athletes. Forbes divided the power women candidates into four groups: politics, business, media and lifestyle. It ranked the women in each group, and then group against group. Two Indian women, Axis bank Chief Executive Shikha Sharma and ICICI bank head Chanda Kocchar also made it to the list.


Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States.

Power Women #1

Age: 46

Education: JD , Harvard University; LLM, Harvard University; BA/BS, Princeton University

"She has made the office of First Lady her own. A forceful advocate of school nutrition standards and military families' affairs, she's more involved in policy than Laura Bush was," says Forbes.

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Irene Rosenfeld, the chief executive of Kraft Foods

Power Women #2

Age: 57

Education: BA/BS , Cornell University; PHD, Cornell University; MS, Cornell University

Her $26.3 million compensation package in 2009 made Rosenfeld the nation's second-highest-paid female, after Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz, according to Forbes.

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Oprah Winfrey, the talk show host and media mogul.

Power Women #3

Age: 56

Education: BA/BS , Tennessee State University

"Her 25th season of Oprah, the program that has launched multiple careers, spawned countless bestsellers and helped millions of women feel that someone, at last, understands them, will air its final show on Sept. 9, 2011,” according to Forbes

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Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany

Power Women#4

Age: 56

Merkel is trying to push through tax and education reforms before next spring's regional elections

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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State

Power Women#5

Age: 62

Education: BA/BS , Wellesley College; LLM, Yale University

As a former first lady and US senator, Clinton brings star power to the State Department, says Forbes.