From fighting the pandemic to reengineering American politics, the influential women on The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list—including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, vice-president elect...
The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
From fighting the pandemic to reengineering global politics, these influential women—including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams—are making history.

Like wealth, fame, or even love, power is not static. As any of the 17 newcomers to the 2020 list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women can attest, a person can quickly gain power through elections, and...
As the world wrestles with a series of converging crises catalyzed by Covid-19, this year has been a reminder of how ephemeral and volatile power can be, how much of it is at play, where systemic imbalances...
This November, Stacey Abrams solidified herself as a household name. The Georgia Democrat and former House minority leader was largely credited with helping flip her state blue during one of the most presidential...
To quantify a concept as subjective as power, the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women relies on a fairly traditional algorithm: power equals money, populations, media mentions and measurable...
There are 12 billionaires on this year’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, worth a collective $150.4 billion. Money doesn’t always directly equate to power; otherwise, there would be far more billionaires...
Just days after her brother, Jacob Blake, was shot seven times as a result of police brutality in Wisconsin, Letetra Widman took the public stage to give a powerful speech that embodied the strength Black...
We've always known the precarious nature of women's political power around the globe, with progress happening in small steps instead of enormous strides. And while in some ways this year has felt like...
Leading through a global health and economic crisis is no easy feat, but the events of this past year haven’t fazed the 100 trailblazers who make up Forbes’ 2020 Most Powerful Women list. Of them, 13 some...
This year's Summit will convene a powerful collection of innovative and visionary voices on the frontlines of progress, who are rising to today’s challenges