How do you spell power?

Is it just ME, or do you, too, wait, enjoy, then question the “official lists” on…well, just about anything?

FORBES has been publishing its “100 Most Powerful Women in the World” list for years.  WOW, to be on that list would mean to have done something so incredible as to change the world, to have made a difference. 

So, when this year’s list came out, I was more than curious to see who had made the top 10 for 2013. Who are these pioneers, these architects of change, these women without whom the world would have a deficit?

So, for your viewing pleasure, your enjoyment and, perhaps a bit of education, here are those “top 10” amazing women for:

Angela Merkel, German Chancellor since 2005 and upon whose shoulders the fate of the Euro rests  (politics)

 

Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil   (politics)

Melinda Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (philanthropy)

Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States  (politics)

Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State, United States, Personality, Philanthropy  (politics)

Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook (business)

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (business)

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeand Security, the United States  (politics)

Sonia Ghandi, President, Indian National Congress, India  (politics)

  

Indra Nooyi, CEO, Pepsi Co (business)

Very interesting…of the top 10, six are in politics, three in business and 1, known for philanthropy…BTW, the average age of these 10 women is 56.3 years of age ( oldest being 66, the youngest is 48).

Thrilled to see “we” have crossed boundaries and occupy an impressive place in the old “Olde Boys Club”. In the words of Robert Frost, “…miles to go before (we) sleep, miles to go…”.

No woman ever needs to be on a list to be making an impact in the world.  I dare say each of every one of the aforementioned and those who occupy the remaining places on the “top 100”, could not have gotten to where they are without the support of other women.  Remember that and feel proud of it.

The more women come together, the more we align ourselves, the greater our collective potential to leave this world a better place for  having been here.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that’s what women want to do, that’s what women can do, that’s what the world needs women to do.  

That’s how I spell power!!

So, IS it just me, or have you, too,  wondered who would be on your “top 10 women” list.  Got a pen and paper??

One question: who’s on the list who decides “the list”?