10 Most Most Powerful Women In The World (VIDEO)

From the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the FLOTUS, we've chosen some heavy-hitters to make our list of the top 10 most-powerful women in the world.

Not everyone can say they are leading the bailouts of three major European economies or heading up U.S. foreign policy. See who rankes first in the video above.

Who do you think we should have included or left out?

Here are Forbes' choices for the 10 most powerful women in media in 2011.

Comments

[loeska]

12:09 PM on 03/02/2012

Interesting survey, and I hope that some day in the future, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will make the list.

[american-dolt]

10:33 AM on 02/28/2012

Most powerful women in the World is the one giving you a lap dance.

[Nikevich]

01:49 AM on 02/29/2012

Pretty sad. We have lost track of spelling. "Man" is one male person; "men" is many. (Educated people call those singular and plural.) Likewise, "woman" is one female person; "women" is many.

[american-dolt]

09:16 AM on 02/29/2012

Pretty sad one can feel so elite by a typo.

[Hugo Rune]

08:40 AM on 02/28/2012

Has anybody here watched the video? You know, the thing on top, right under the headline that says VIDEO in brackets? Why is everybody complaining about the slideshow at the bottom?

[November2008]

08:33 AM on 02/28/2012

Never a good title, unless you have access to ALL women in the world.

[1 Million Dollar Cartoon]

08:24 AM on 02/28/2012

I vote for Gina Carano.

[intellifran]

07:54 AM on 02/28/2012

Epic fail! What about our Secretary of State Hilary Clinton? What about the female president of Brazil?

[rlellis711]

08:55 AM on 02/28/2012

Hillary??? Really???? Slept her way to First Lady, bought her way to the Senate and was made SOS to keep her out of the way.....

[american-dolt]

10:32 AM on 02/28/2012

Ya, whats her name?

[JeanRR]

07:18 AM on 02/28/2012

Notice they are all in the media. This is mistitled and should read "The Most Powerful Media Women."

[Redic]

01:59 PM on 02/29/2012

wrong!

[OBAMAMOI]

07:11 AM on 02/28/2012

My mother is number1!

[victorianism]

06:50 AM on 02/28/2012

It's just plain ridiculous.

[kevinbr38]

06:48 AM on 02/28/2012

Greta van Susteren? Really?

[OBAMAMOI]

07:12 AM on 02/28/2012

Reallyx2?

[Bobby Smith]

08:13 AM on 02/28/2012

Reallyx3?

[BurtonDesque]

06:16 AM on 02/28/2012

Was this list meant as a joke or did it just happen by accident?

[RButler]

03:38 AM on 02/28/2012

What about the woman that can pull a locomotive engine with her teeth?  Now, THAT'S powerful.

[draven646]

01:17 AM on 02/28/2012

Sonia Gandhi should top this list.....she is the undisputed 'Empress' of India.

India with its 8% growth rate, 1.2 Billion people, Nuclear Weapons & 1.5 million men Army is under her direct rule...she is answerable to no one...gives no interviews and rules as suits her whims.

[Nikevich]

01:54 AM on 02/29/2012

Sonia Gandhi's name is misspelled. It's not casual to fix. However, it really should be fixed, because this is akin to a promotional video, and she's a very prominent world figure. Furthermore, withdrawing the video from access is not a good option.

Shame on you for failing to see this as wrong. (Blame the way you were mis-taught to read! Whole word method?) Remember that short bit that went viral which said it's just as easy to read words with all but the first and last letters scrambled?

This misspelling might be part of the emerging printed dialect of English in which [mis]spelling is by consensus, instead of what has been established. Following Steve Colbert's Truthiness principle and Chas. P. Pierce's three principles in _Idiot America, a consensus-misspelling takes root. (Prime example: "If you loose it, we can find another, but not easily.") In that sentence, "loose" is a consensus-misspelling; it's not standard English.

I suspect that "Ghandi" is another consensus-misspelling. At least, it's a quite-reasonable spelling, just not correct when referring to that family. You'll note that "gh" and "dh" digraphs are quite common in India.

Good luck!

[stepintothelight]

01:03 AM on 02/28/2012

Powerful women ... pfffft ..... Now my wife she is a powerful woman!
I bet none of "these" so called power women can get me to go to the drug store to get Tampax!!!

[Imokyrok]

06:33 AM on 02/28/2012

I can get my husband to do that no problem. Maybe I should be on that list too. ;)

[word of reason]

12:51 AM on 02/28/2012

More power to women and world will be better place.