Though they have been underrepresented in most segments of professional and corporate life, women worldwide are indeed picking up fast to catch up with men.Often, we have heard that it is the men’s world. but if you look the history and modern time, then we find out that, Women also had played a crucial role and still playing an important part in society. Even Some businesswomen surpassed their man equivalates. Today you can see women are working in every sector like from media to politics, from corporate to IT sectors, and from actor to sports.
1. Gina Rinehart
Gina Hancock is an Australian billionaire businesswoman who is chairman of Hancock and prospecting, which continues to expand robustly. For your information, the company was founded by her father Lang Hancock, she headed her late father’s bankrupted estate and reinvented it into something bigger. She made the biggest fortune from the Roy Hill Mining project, it started shipments to Asia in 2015. Her net worth is 14.5 Billion dollars that make her wealthiest person in Australia and 75th billionaires in the world. She is also a 36th powerful woman as per Forbes 2019.
2. Indra Nooyi
After joining PepsiCo in 1994, Indra Nooyi was named the company’s 5th CEO eight years later in 2006. Under Nooyi’s guidance, PepsiCo succeeded much by way of expansion and acquisition. This includes the purchase of Tropicana in 1998. And a merger with the Quaker Oats Company in 2001. The former alone gave PepsiCo a competitive edge, as Tropicana controlled 44% of the American chilled fruit juice trade.
Nooyi has also driven PepsiCo towards a healthier approach to its snacks and drinks. Expanding the number of healthy options the company offers, she also found ways of making its “fun” items healthier too.
In 2007 and 2008, Nooyi was listed as one of the Wall Street Journal’s 50 Women to Watch. And in October 2010 she was ranked by Fortune magazine at 6th place on their list for the Most Powerful Women in the World. By 2015, she climbed to 2nd place.
3. Kiran Mazumdar
Though Kiren Mazumdar Shaw is one of the richest and popular self-made business women, she says she became an entrepreneur by accident as she never aspired to start a business. Creating a biopharmaceutical company called Bicon in 1978, she has managed to make it one of the leaders in manufacturing a wide range of drugs.
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