The World's 100 Most Powerful Women?

POLITICS - According to Forbes the list down below shows the world's most powerful women in 2010.

However this list is extremely Americentric. 70% of the women are Americans, quite a few of them are entertainers (ie. Does Lady Gaga really deserve the #7 spot? Or Katie Couric #22?)... And to be honest, most of them you probably have never even heard of because they're not that famous.

A lot of the non-American women are presidents, CEOs or First Ladies of their countries, with very few exceptions. One of them is just a presidential candidate in Brazil... so apparently just running for president in a country makes you one of the top 100 according to Forbes.

A few are supermodels or athletes. Seriously, how does that make them powerful? By selling lingerie or tennis raquets?

Its all utter nonsense.

So BOOOOOO to Forbes and their phoney baloney list. They are just like making lists apparently to fill space, satisfy their idiot readers and get attention. Boooo!

1
Michelle Obama
First Lady 46 United States

2
Irene Rosenfeld
Chief Executive, Kraft Foods 57 United States

3
Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host and media mogul 56 United States

4
Angela Merkel
Chancellor 56 Germany

5
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State 62 United States

6
Indra Nooyi
Chief Executive, PepsiCo 54 United States

7
Lady Gaga
Singer and performance artist 24 United States

8
Gail Kelly
Chief Executive, Westpac 54 Australia

9
Beyonce Knowles
Singer, fashion designer 29 United States

10
Ellen DeGeneres
Talk show host 52 United States

11
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House 70 United States

12
Angela Braly
Chief Executive, Wellpoint 49 United States

13
Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Homeland Security 52 United States

14
Cynthia Carroll
Chief Executive, Anglo American 53 United States

15
Sheila Bair
Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 56 United States

16
Sarah Palin
Political maverick and commentator 46 United States

17
Mary Schapiro
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission 55 United States

18
Ellen Kullman
Chief Executive, DuPont 54 United States

19
Sonia Sotomayor
Supreme Court Justice 56 United States

20
Ursula Burns
Chief Executive, Xerox 51 United States

21
Angelina Jolie
Actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador 35 United States

22
Katie Couric
News anchor 53 United States

23
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary, Health & Human Services 62 United States

24
Anne Lauvergeon
Chief Executive, Areva 51 France

25
Elena Kagan
Supreme Court Justice 50 United States

26
Patricia Woertz
Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Co. 57 United States

27
Melinda Gates
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 46 United States

28
Arianna Huffington
Founder and editor-in-chief, Huffington Post 60 United States

29
Madonna
Singer, fashion designer 52 United States

30
Ho Ching
Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings 57 Singapore

31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice 77 United States

32
Maria Ramos
Chief Executive, Absa Group Banks 51 South Africa

33
Chelsea Handler
Talk show host and author 35 United States

34
Tina Brown
Cofounder and editor-in-chief, The Daily Beast 56 United States

35
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
First Lady 42 France

36
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Chief Executive, Sunoco 54 United States

37
Elizabeth Warren
Assistant to the President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of Treasury 61 United States

38
Ana Patricia Botin
Chair, Banesto bank 49 Spain

39
Heidi Klum
Model and producer 37 United States

40
Meredith Vieira
Co-anchor 56 United States

41
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch 84 United Kingdom

42
Carol Bartz
Chief Executive, Yahoo! 62 United States

43
Christine Lagarde
Finance Minister 54 France

44
Sallie Krawcheck
President, Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America 45 United States

45
Sarah Jessica Parker
Actor and fashion designer 45 United States

46
Diane Sawyer
News anchor 64 United States

47
Meg Whitman
Gubernatorial candidate, California 54 United States

48
Marina Berlusconi
Chair, Mondadori and Fininvest Group 44 Italy

49
Stephenie Meyer
Author 36 United States

50
Rachel Maddow
Talk show host 37 United States

51
Carly Fiorina
Senatorial candidate, California 56 United States

52
Guler Sabanci
Chair, Sabanci Holding 54 Turkey

53
Maria Shriver
First Lady, California 54 United States

54
Carol Meyrowitz
Chief Executive, TJX companies 56 United States

55
Serena Williams
Athlete 28 United States

56
Anna Wintour
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue 60 United States

57
Andrea Jung
Chief Executive, Avon Products 52 United States

58
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister 48 Australia

59
Abigail Johnson
President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services 48 United States

60
Venus Williams
Athlete 30 United States

61
Suze Orman
Author and personal finance guru 59 United States

62
Tarja Halonen
President 66 Finland

63
Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive, Pearson PLC 63 United States

64
Mary McAleese
President 59 Ireland

65
Annika Falkengren
Chief Executive, SEB 48 Sweden

66
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook 41 United States

67
Cathleen Black
Chair, Hearst Magazines 66 United States

68
Cristina Fernandez
President 57 Argentina

69
Anne Sweeney
Co-chair, Disney Media Networks 52 United States

70
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
Minister of Economy 51 United Arab Emirates

71
Chua Sock Koong
Group Chief Executive, Singapore Telecommunications 51 Singapore

72
Gisele Bundchen
Model and fashion designer 30 Brazil

73
Christiane Amanpour
Anchor 52 United States

74
Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
First Lady 50 Qatar

75
Susan Ivey
Chief Executive, Reynolds American 51 United States

76
Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Monarch 40 Jordan

77
Nancy McKinstry
Chief Executive, Wolters Kluwer 51 United States

78
Rachael Ray
Talks show host and author 42 United States

79
Nikki Finke
Founder and blogger, Deadline Hollywood Daily 56 United States

80
Johanna Sigurdardottir
President 67 Iceland

81
Jing Ulrich
Managing director and chair, China Equities and Commodities, J.P. Morgan Chase 43 United States

82
Laura Sen
Chief Executive, BJ's Wholesale Club 54 United States

83
Laura Chinchilla
President 51 Costa Rica

84
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Chief Executive, Asset Management, JP Morgan Chase 43 United States

85
Janet L. Robinson
Chief Executive and President 60 United States

86
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President 71 Liberia

87
Amy Pascal
Co-Chair, Sony Pictures Entertainment 52 United States

88
Tory Burch
Fashion designer 44 United States

89
Shikha Sharma
Chief Executive, Axis Bank 49 India

90
Sun Yafang
Chair, Huawei Technologies 54 China

91
Vera Wang
Fashion designer 61 United States

92
Chanda Kocchar
Chief Executive, ICICI Bank 48 India

93
Danica Patrick
Race car driver 28 United States

94
Maha Al-Ghunaim
Cofounder and chair, Global Investment House 50 Kuwait

95
Dilma Rousseff
Presidential candidate 62 Brazil

96
Donna Karan
Fashion designer 61 United States

97
Angela Ahrendts
Chief Executive, Burberry Group 50 United States

98
Ellen Alemany
Chief Executive, Citizens Financial Group 54 United States

99
Martha Stewart
Lifestyle Guru 69 United States

100
Dominique Senequier
Chief Executive, AXA Private Equity 57 France