Le 100 donne più potenti del mondo

Il celebre magazine finanziario Forbes (ah, per inciso, recentemente acquistato dal marpione Bono, sicuramente più abile a destreggiarsi nelle sfere del potere piuttosto che in quello delle 7 note) condivide il nostro gusto per le classifiche. Sul suo sito se ne possono trovare di tutte le specie. Questa volta abbiamo scelto quella relativa alle 100 donne più potenti del mondo.

Beh, per quest'anno sembra che la più potente sia la cancelliera tedesca Angela Merkel, che ha appena scalzato dal trono il segretario di Stato americano, la Condy Rice, che precede la vice-premier cinese Wu Yi. Segue poi una lunga serie di top manager di grandi corporate, per lo più americane, ma anche coreane, giapponese, israeliane, iralndesi, olandesi e sinanche africane.

E le italiane. Il deserto dei tartari. Ah no, ce n'è una. Indovinate chi è. Inizia con "Ber" e finisce con "lusconi". Di nome fa Marina. E' accedita come CEO di Mediaset. In realtà il vero titolo è "figlia di Berlusconi". Non ci libereremo mai più di questo cognome.

Va beh, consoliamoci con la classifica completa che riportiamo qui sotto. Per chi volesse saperne di più sulle varie "fanciulle" in classifica, abbiamo mantenuto il link alle pagine di dettaglio (in inglese).

1	Angela Merkel	Premier	Germania
2	Condoleezza Rice	Segretario di Stato	US
3	Wu Yi	Vice Premier	Cina
4	Indra Nooyi	Chief Executive-Designate, PepsiCo	US
5	Anne Mulcahy	Chairman and Chief Executive, Xerox	US
6	Sallie Krawcheck	Chief Financial Officer, Citigroup	US
7	Patricia Woertz	Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland	US
8	Anne Lauvergeon	Chairman, Areva	Francia
9	Brenda Barnes	Chairman and Chief Executive, Sara Lee	US
10	Zoe Cruz	Co-President, Morgan Stanley	US
11	Irene Rosenfeld	Chief Executive, Kraft Foods	US
12	Melinda Gates	Co-Founder, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	US
13	Sonia Gandhi	Presidente, National Congress Party	India
14	Oprah Winfrey	Chairman, Harpo	US
15	Anne Sweeney	Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks	US
16	Mary Sammons	Chief Executive, President, Rite Aid	US
17	Michelle Bachelet	Presidente	Cile
18	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Senatrice, New York	US
19	Ann Livermore	Executive Vice President, Hewlett-Packard	US
20	Helen Clark	Premier	N. Zelandia
21	Safra Catz	President and Chief Financial Officer, Oracle	US
22	Margaret Whitman	Chief Executive, President, eBay	US
23	Julie Gerberding	Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	US
24	Susan Arnold	Vice Chairman, Beauty & Health, Procter & Gamble	US
25	Patricia Russo	Chairman and Chief Executive, Lucent Technologies	US

26	Christine Poon	Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson	US
27	Renetta McCann	Chief Executive, Starcom MediaVest Group	US
28	Sima Samar	Chairman, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission	Afghanistan
29	Margaret Beckett	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	UK
30	Christine Lagarde	Minister of Trade	Francia
31	Marjorie Scardino	Chief Executive, Pearson	UK
32	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Supreme Court Justice	US
33	Khaleda Zia	Premier	Bangladesh
34	Suzanne Nora Johnson	Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs	US
35	Wu Xiaoling	Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China	China
36	Ho Ching	Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings	Singapore
37	Andrea Jung	Chairman and Chief Executive, Avon Products	US
38	Neelie Kroes	European Commissioner for Competition	Olanda
39	Fumiko Hayashi	Chief Executive, Daiei	Giappone
40	Tzipora Livni	Foreign Minister, Vice Prime Minister	Israele
41	Beth Brooke	Global Vice Chairman, Ernst & Young	US
42	Marina Berlusconi	Chairman, Fininvest	Italia
43	Laura Bush	First Lady	US
44	Tarja Halonen	Presidente	Finlandia
45	Gloria Arroyo	Presidente	Philippine
46	Queen Elizabeth II	Regina	UK
47	Aung San Suu Kyi	Nobel Peace Laureate	Myanmar
48	Nancy Pelosi	Minority Leader, House of Representatives	US
49	Theresa Gattung	Chief Executive, Telecom New Zealand Group	N.Zelanda
50	Clara Furse	Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange	UK

51	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	Presidente	Liberia
52	Judy McGrath	Chairman and Chief Executive, MTV Networks	US
53	Ann Moore	Chairman and Chief Executive, Time Inc.	US
54	Katie Couric	Anchor, The CBS Evening News	US
55	Mary McAleese	Presidente	Irlanda
56	Linda Cook	Executive Director, Gas and Power, Shell Group	US
57	Michele Alliot-Marie	Minister of Defense	Francia
58	Paula Rosput Reynolds	Chief Executive, Safeco	US
59	Amy Pascal	Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group	US
60	Diane Sawyer	Co-Anchor, ABC's Good Morning America	US
61	Susan Ivey	Chairman and Chief Executive, Reynolds American	US
62	Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	Minster of Foreign Affairs	Nigeria
63	Vaira Vike-Freiberga	Presidente	Latvia
64	Marilyn Carlson Nelson	Chairman and Chief Executive, Carlson Cos.	US
65	Guler Sabanci	Chairman, Sabanci Holding	Turchia
66	Dora Bakoyannis	Foreign Minister	Grecia
67	Nancy McKinstry	Chief Executive, Wolters Kluwer	Olanda
68	Han Myung-sook	Prime Minister	SudCorea
69	Meredith Vieira	Co-anchor, The Today Show	US
70	Mian Mian Yang	Chairman, Haier Group	Cina
71	Antonia Ax:son Johnson	Chairman, Axel Johnson Group	Svezia
72	Nahed Taher	Founder and Chief Executive, Gulf One Investment Bank	Arabia
73	Ana Patricia Botin	Executive Chairman, Banesto	Spagna
74	Janet Robinson	Chief Executive, The New York Times Co.	US
75	Nancy Tellem	President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group	US

76	Angela Ahrendts	Chief Executive, Burberry	UK
77	Susan Berresford	President, Ford Foundation	US
78	Dawn Hudson	President and Chief Executive, Pepsi-Cola North America	US
79	Christiane Amanpour	Chief International Correspondent, CNN	US
80	Christie Hefner	Chairman and Chief Executive, Playboy Enterprises	US
81	Queen Rania	Regina	Giordania
82	Colleen Barrett	President, Southwest Airlines	US
83	Luisa Diogo	Premier	Mozambico
84	Stephanie Burns	Chairman and Chief Executive, Dow Corning	US
85	Marie Ehrling	President, TeliaSonera Sweden	Svezia
86	Vivian Banta	Vice Chairman, Prudential Financial	US
87	Rochelle Lazarus	Chairman and Chief Executive, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide	US
88	Galia Maor	Chief Executive, Bank Leumi	Israele
89	Portia Simpson Miller	Premier	Giamaica
90	Gail Berman	President, Paramount Pictures	US
91	Maha Al-Ghunaim	Founder, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Global Investment Hous	Kuwait
92	Cathleen Black	President, Hearst Magazines	US
93	Lalita Gupte & Kalpana Morparia	Joint Managing Directors, ICICI Bank	India
94	Stacey Snider	Chief Executive and Co-Chairman, DreamWorks	US
95	Vidya Chhabria	Chairman, Jumbo Group	Dubai
96	Sharon Allen	Chairman, Deloitte & Touche USA	US
97	Lubna Olayan	Chief Executive, Olayan Financing	Arabia
98	Martha Nelson	Editor, The People Group	US
99	Orit Gadiesh	Chairman, Bain & Co.	US
100	Imre Barmanbek	Deputy Chairman, Dogan Holding	Turchia