Powerful Women : The World’s all time100+ Most Powerful Women

The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women- Women are ethical and civic-minded, and champion diversity and issues of equality. Women leaders seek to further economic, social and political progress for all. Empowered powerful women will improve outcomes and bring about results.

10 reasons why we need more powerful women in leadership roles at the workplace

Powerful Women- In today’s world, women may not always realise their potential, and once unleashed, they have a direct route to success. When they find themselves in a leadership role, their capability and abilities are undeniable. However, it’s simple to claim this, so that establishes the need to outline multiple benefits women can bring to leadership roles.

1.  Powerful Women leaders will paint the future

A woman who is currently not in a leadership role can be a daunting prospect entering such a high-profile role with current stigmas that may be attached. In turn, this could push away the younger generation from striving to break down barriers.

In 2019, the proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 29%, the highest number ever recorded. In 2020, this percentage remained the same.

While this can be considered positive news, women just entering the workforce will need to be inspired by other women who are currently smashing their role as a leader in the workplace. Once achieved, it can carve a direction for all young aspiring women leaders to increase the global percentage and break new records.

2.   Unique transformational ideas will be brought to the front

A meta-analysis comparing male and female leaders identified those female leaders were more transformational. They demonstrated more contingent reward behaviour than the two-dimensional actions (active and passive management) presented by male leadership.

3.   The enhancement of teamwork

There is no doubt that we’ve all seen women demonstrate passion, enthusiasm and a capability to take command of a situation when need be (let’s not look further than our own mothers or female caregivers in this instance).

Women are able to make bold and wise decisions as leaders; this helps make the team environment less authoritative and more cooperative, bringing a family-like feel to the team. This boosts teamwork across the organisation and helps implement a new culture within the business.

4.  Powerful Women demonstrate superior leadership values

Heading back to a national Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey, 2,250 adults ranked women better than or equal to men in seven of the eight primary leadership traits assessed throughout the survey.

The key statistics from this survey outline half of the respondents ranked women as more honest than men, with 20% saying that men are more honest than women. In terms of intelligence, 38% said they viewed women as smarter, with only 14% indicating men are smarter. For the other cases, women were ranked for being more compassionate, outgoing and creative.

5.   Business-wide communication can be enhanced

Communication is said and known to be among a woman’s strongest skill. Female leaders will utilise this power to enhance meaningful conversations with employers, co-workers and partners, thus creating an open communication stream that creates a sense of clarity.

6.   Achieve a better financial outcome

Within a more diverse workplace, the more likely creative ideas are going to be presented. This helps fuel growth and helps create more sustainability within an organisation. Diversity in the workplace should not just prioritise women, but instead, have a fluid combination of both genders throughout the organisation.

Workplace gender diversity helps increase productivity, creativity, improves performance, staff retention, and, as established, boosts collaboration throughout the business. In a workplace study, 21% of businesses are more likely to experience above-average profitability if the workforce is gender-diverse.

7.   Fresh new outlooks and perspectives

We have outlined the need to construct a diverse workforce, and with this will come new experiences and perspectives that ultimately contribute to bringing some much-needed innovation into the business.

Women leaders will bring skills, different perspectives, and innovative ideas to the table, but these three combined will help create new perspectives that lead to better decision-making as a whole for the business.

8.  Powerful Women leaders can provide better mentorship

Especially for the younger generation, the power of role models cannot be overlooked. Regardless of a person’s gender, all people need someone who will guide them to progress in their careers. Specifically, for mentoring and coaching young talent, women leaders are better mentors than men.

According to a study, 29% of women believe that their gender will be an obstacle to advancement. To overcome this obstacle, women in leadership positions can take this opportunity and begin empowering the bright young minds of the next generation.

9.   The ability to wear many hats

In a women’s life, wearing different hats within their roles is often a common occurrence. You can find them often balancing careers, households and taking up the mantel of parental guidance along with many other experiences. These combined help women leaders to quickly adjust to new situations and focus on finding solutions to real-life work issues.

10.  Women in leadership roles can close the gender pay gap

Something that can often be overlooked is that the gender pay gap can be transformed into a gender opportunity gap. It has been seen that when males and females start their progress from scratch, men are usually offered more opportunities leading to higher-paying positions.

The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women with in full detail are-

Rank	Name	Age	Country/Territory	Category
	#1	MacKenzie Scott	51	United States	Philanthropy
	#2	Kamala Harris	57	United States	Politics & Policy
	#3	Christine Lagarde	66	France	Politics & Policy
	#4	Mary Barra	60	United States	Business
	#5	Melinda French Gates	57	United States	Philanthropy
	#6	Abigail Johnson	60	United States	Finance
	#7	Ana Patricia Botín	61	Spain	Finance
	#8	Ursula von der Leyen	63	Germany	Politics & Policy
	#9	Tsai Ing-wen	65	Taiwan	Politics & Policy
	#10	Julie Sweet	54	United States	Business
	#11	Karen Lynch	59	United States	Business
	#12	Carol Tomé	65	United States	Business
	#13	Emma Walmsley	53	United Kingdom	Business
	#14	Jane Fraser	54	United States	Finance
	#15	Nancy Pelosi	81	United States	Politics & Policy
	#16	Gail Boudreaux	61	United States	Business
	#17	Rosalind Brewer	59	United States	Business
	#18	Susan Wojcicki	53	United States	Technology
	#19	Safra Catz	60	United States	Technology
	#20	Ruth Porat	64	United States	Technology
	#21	Martina Merz	59	Germany	Business
	#22	Kristalina Georgieva	68	Bulgaria	Politics & Policy
	#23	Oprah Winfrey	68	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#24	Shemara Wikramanayake	60	Australia	Business
	#25	Judith McKenna	56	United Kingdom	Business
	#26	Amanda Blanc	55	United Kingdom	Business
	#27	Nicke Widyawati	54	Indonesia	Business
	#28	Amy Hood	50	United States	Technology
	#29	Catherine MacGregor	–	France	Business
	#30	Phebe Novakovic	63	United States	Business
	#31	Shari Redstone	67	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#32	Laurene Powell Jobs	58	United States	Philanthropy
	#33	Ho Ching	69	Singapore	Finance
	#34	Jacinda Ardern	41	New Zealand	Politics & Policy
	#35	Jessica Uhl	54	United States	Business
	#36	Sheryl Sandberg	52	United States	Technology
	#37	Nirmala Sitharaman	63	India	Politics & Policy
	#38	Gwynne Shotwell	58	United States	Technology
	#39	Janet Yellen	75	United States	–
	#40	Kathy Warden	–	United States	Business
	#41	Adena Friedman	52	United States	Finance
	#42	Marianne Lake, Jennifer Piepszak	–	United States	Finance
	#43	Sheikh Hasina Wajed	74	Bangladesh	Politics & Policy
	#44	Gina Rinehart	68	Australia	Business
	#45	Thasunda Brown Duckett	–	United States	Finance
	#46	Vicki Hollub	62	United States	Business
	#47	Mary Callahan Erdoes	54	United States	Finance
	#48	Ozlem Tureci	–	Germany	Business
	#49	Lisa Su	53	United States	Business
	#50	Dana Walden	57	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#51	Tricia Griffith	57	United States	Business
	#52	Roshni Nadar Malhotra	40	India	Technology
	#53	Cathie Wood	66	United States	Finance
	#54	Jennifer Salke	–	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#55	Tokiko Shimizu	57	Japan	–
	#56	Donna Langley	54	United Kingdom	Media & Entertainment
	#57	Hana Al Rostamani	–	–	Finance
	#58	Dong Mingzhu	67	China	Business
	#59	Yuriko Koike	69	Japan	Politics & Policy
	#60	Elvira Nabiullina	58	Russia	Politics & Policy
	#61	Suzanne Scott	–	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#62	Lynn Good	–	United States	Business
	#63	Ann Sarnoff	–	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#64	Judy Faulkner	78	United States	Business
	#65	Melanie Kreis	50	Germany	Business
	#66	Sri Mulyani Indrawati	59	Indonesia	Politics & Policy
	#67	Paula Santilli	–	Mexico	Business
	#68	Rihanna	34	Barbados	Media & Entertainment
	#69	Laura Cha	–	Hong Kong	Finance
	#70	Queen Elizabeth II	95	United Kingdom	Politics & Policy
	#71	Mette Frederiksen	44	Denmark	Politics & Policy
	#72	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	68	India	Business
	#73	Joey Wat	51	China	Business
	#74	Reese Witherspoon	45	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#75	Wang Feng Ying	–	China	Business
	#76	Beyoncé Knowles	40	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#77	Güler Sabanci	67	Turkey	Business
	#78	Taylor Swift	32	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#79	Zhou Qunfei	–	Hong Kong	Technology
	#80	Ava DuVernay	49	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#81	Solina Chau	60	Hong Kong	Philanthropy
	#82	Magdalena Andersson	–	Sweden	Politics & Policy
	#83	Sanna Marin	36	Finland	Politics & Policy
	#84	Mary Meeker	62	United States	Technology
	#85	Serena Williams	40	United States	Media & Entertainment
	#86	Zuzana Caputova	48	Slovakia	Politics & Policy
	#87	Dominique Senequier	68	France	Finance
	#88	Falguni Nayar	59	India	Business
	#89	Lee Boo-jin	51	South Korea	Business
	#90	Anne Wojcicki	48	United States	Technology
	#91	Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	67	Nigeria	Politics & Policy
	#92	Raja Easa Al Gurg	–	United Arab Emirates	Business
	#93	Julia Gillard	60	Australia	–
	#94	Samia Suluhu Hassan	–	Tanzania	Politics & Policy
	#95	Kirsten Green	50	United States	Technology
	#96	Renuka Jagtiani	–	United Arab Emirates	Business
	#97	Chrystia Freeland	–	Canada	Politics & Policy
	#98	Mo Abudu	–	Nigeria	Media & Entertainment
	#99	Christiana Figueres	–	Costa Rica	Politics & Policy
	#100	Frances Haugen	–	United States	Technology