Illinois – A Jewish businesswoman has been named as the second most powerful woman in the world.
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Irene Rosenfeld appears just behind the First Lady Michelle Obama on Forbes 2010 list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Ms Rosenfeld, the chief executive of Kraft Food, is a controversial figure in the UK following her company’s audacious £10.2bn bid for confectionary giant Cadbury Cadbury.
The 57-year-old, who is married with two children, is a psychology graduate of Cornell University, a Master of Business Administration and holds a PhD in marketing and statistics.
She was born in Brooklyn, and later brought up in Westbury on Long Island to parents Seymour and Joan Blecker, a young Jewish couple. Her father’s parents were Romanian Jews, her mother’s grandparents – German Jews.
Elana Kagan, the newly appointed Supreme Court justice, also appeared on the list at number 25.
Ms Kagan, 50, is the ninth Jewish judge to sit on the Supreme Court. Her fellow Jewish appointee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was rated as the 31st most powerful woman.
The list also included Sarah Jessica Parker, American comedian Chelsea Handler, who has a Jewish father, and personal finance expert Suze Orman.
Fashion designer Donna Karan just made the list, placed at number 96.
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook, came in at number 66 while Queen Rania of Jordan was at number 76.
What a dumb list makes on sense what power does she or obama have and why is kagan way ahead of ginsburg how stupid.
and maybe you can explain to me how she is powerful and in what way she can inflence the world? My mother in law probably has more power.
Who in the world put together such an inane list? Sarah Jessica Parker has power? Over whom, Mr. Big? Kagan ahead of Ginsburg? A comedian with power? I would place Suze Orman like about #8 or so. You have any idea how many people follow her words? I 217;d like to see the measuring criteria. Or was this based on women 217;s votes?
“This year Forbes changed the way it ranked women, basing the list less on wealth and power and more on creative influence and entrepreneurship.”
What insane list makes no sense, I bet some liberal group but it together its fits for them there all insane.
Power? Over who? Influence maybe. Even my wife has no power over me.
#6 . Tell noone your real name. Try to show some seichel. You may think your wife has no power over you but……
Michelle Obama, most powerful woman in the world??? What a joke. What exactly does she have power over – besides choosing what designer stores to shop at and who should redecorate the White House kitchen?
reply to #8 :
Michelle Obama IS the most powerful woman in the world, just like her husband is the smartest, most powerful man in the world, and the best president EVER!
Right?
My dog is considered less powerful than me. But which of us prepares food for the other, takes care of the other, and cleans up after the other? So you tell me which one of us is more powerful?
If you can tell me anything, and I mean ANYTHING that Michelle Obama has done, I would be grateful.
So far as I know, the only thing she has done is given birth to kids named after a city in Israel  211; Bnei Barack!
I recently saw a bumper sticker on a car driven by a women with a very short hairdo similar to Ms Rosenfeld. It said: “Women who behave are rarely famous.” When I first saw it, I naively thought it actually meant women are better off not famous, as I assumed a woman would want to behave. My wife cleverly corrected me that the bumper sticker is saying that women should not behave so that they can be famous.
Forbes, like most right wing media outlets, promotes stupidity. There is no question that the most powerful woman in the world is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
to #11 :
Obviously, there IS a question.