Sisters ARE doing it for themselves!

Fortune have published the 50 most powerful women in Business for 2009:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostpowerfulwomen/2009/index.html

It throws up some incredible facts and figures... such as the salary of the highest paid woman, Safra Catz, the CEO of Oracle (the Database firm) who receives a staggering $42.4 million!

Mind you the highest paid man was Aubrey K. McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy (CHK) who received $112.5 million!

The female supremo who was voted the head honcho was the CEO of Pepsi, Indra Nooyi. This is the fourth year in a row she has been ranked first. Pepsi sales are in the region of $42 billion (yes you read that right) and she has turned a great deal of that into profit!

Another interesting businesswoman to highlight comes in at number 5. She's Andrea Jung who is the CEO of Avon Products! Mind you, number 6 is Oprah Winfrey!

As one of my Higher class pointed out, it is really sad that it is hard to name many businesswomen and indeed many female entrpreneurs. We keep trailing out the same old names such as Michelle Mone, the late Anita Roddick, and to a lesser extent Deborah Meaden (after all who knew who she was before Dragons' Den?).

So at least with Indra Nooyi girls can have a new role model. The boss of the world's second largest soft drink company, and someone who is obviously superb in her job.