Most Powerful Women 2019
Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women issue highlights the top women leaders in business, politics and beyond.
By Fortune
- See who made the 2019 annual list of the Most Powerful Women in Business.
- Fortune is keeping a close eye on the careers of these star executives, all of whom could land on—or return to—our Most Powerful Women list someday soon.
- Apple, Disney, and others are challenging its dominance like never before. Here's the team behind the tech giant’s big bet on original content.
- The world's largest coffee chain super-charged sales, survived a PR nightmare, and navigated the loss of its iconic founder. The secret weapon powering Starbucks' renaissance? Retail hotshot Roz Brewe …
- “Equal pay! Equal pay!”
- Sonia Syngal helped make Old Navy nearly as big as all its Gap Inc. siblings combined. She’ll need that magic touch when the brand sails solo.
- From the Pink Wave to the women of the White House, the future of Washington power brokering is female.
- Before the recession, several women looked poised to make the jump. Over a decade later, big banking still hasn't seen a woman chief executive.
- The women on this year’s list hail from 19 countries (and every continent but Antarctica), and fewer and fewer of them have any family connection to the businesses they’re running.
- In retail, technology, and health care, women have continued to crash into corner suites.
