The most powerful classification of fortune shows how far women must still go

Out of 105 people on the list of most powerful people (there are links), 19 are women. They are woven in the ranking in the same order as they appear on our most powerful list of women in 2025, published in May. The first woman on the MPW list, the chief of GM Mary Barra, is available at No. 10 on the list of most powerful people. It is preceded by the Titans of today’s affairs – Jamie Dimon, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and, at n ° 1 this year, Jensen Huang de Nvidia.

While the founders of Silicon Valley like Zuckerberg and Altman appear at the top of the ranking, the best women in business are mainly career leaders. (After Barra, there is Julie Sweet of Accenture, Jane Fraser from Citi and Lisa Su.

Founding women like Mira Murati, Fei -Fei Li and Melanie Perkins de Canva, who have become pillars on the MPW list, are ready to build generational companies like Openai and Meta – but are still on the way. In a few years, they may also dominate the top of the ranking.

Emma Hinchliffe
Emma.hinchliffe@ Fortune.com

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– Side effect. Labor statistics office disorders could threaten the ability to make up for the gender gap in the United States, the experts of equal rights defenders underline. Without collection of reliable data, it is difficult to solve the problem.

– Money moves. After my colleagues announced the news earlier this year of the Gates Foundation’s plans to spend $ 200 billion, then close its doors, we learn more about how this money will be spent. The Foundation engages $ 2.5 billion until 2030 for women’s health. This includes everything, efforts to reduce maternal mortality worldwide to the development of new vaccines for infections that disproportionately affect women. In addition, Dr Anita Zaidi of the Foundation wrote an editorial on this decision to Fortune. New Stat

– Martha is the last. Martha Stewart launched many brands during his career. For the first time, at 84, the first self-taught billionaire in the United States now has a brand of skin care. Elm Biosciences will be launched in September. Wall Street Journal

– Endless. Well, Trump waded in Sydney Sweeney’s speech. After the actress’s announcement for American Eagle was criticized for an eugenic atmosphere with a play on “jeans / genes”, the president said that she had “the hottest announcement on the market”. He also took advantage of it for an excavation at Taylor Swift (who approved Kamala Harris in the 2024 elections). “She was hue from the Super Bowl and became hot,” he wrote on Truth Social. Politico

Movers and shaking

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Words of separation

“I feel like I understand myself more every day.”

– actress Margaret Qualley, on the cover of Cosmopolitan

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