If you haven’t heard the names of these women before, then you must definitely see who they are.  They are women that have managed to achieve powerful positions in there career.  Through out history, women have been considered as inferior to men, they have always been stuck with the house chores.  The logic behind this silly belief is that if you don’t give a person a chance to perform, how will you she could perform.  The traditional belief regarding women is no longer worthy of being mentioned after seeing this list.

1. Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of state U.S.
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She is the first African-American woman to become the U.S. secretary of state. She advises the leader of the world’s largest superpower and has an unparalleled level of trust with and access to the president. And she has served two other U.S. presidents, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. For all of these reasons, and more, Rice, 50, is the most powerful woman in the world. After a four-year role as national security adviser, Rice assumed the mantle of secretary of state in January. Rice has played a key, behind-the-scenes role in all of President George W. Bush’s major decisions. “During the last four years, I’ve relied on her counsel, benefited from her great experience and appreciated her sound and steady judgment,” the president said when announcing Rice’s promotion. Bush needs her now more than ever, as his approval ratings and credibility sag, his domestic agenda is stalled, and the country grows more bitterly divided over the war in Iraq.

2 .Wu Yi
Vice Premier, minister of health, China
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Having risen up the ranks of China’s Communist Party leadership since 1962, Wu Yi, 66, became a member of the Central Committee in 2002, adding the post of minister of health in 2003. Wu Yi has been busy this year as she helps China battle disgruntled textile manufacturers, due to the lifting of World Trade Organization quotas. In a bold June speech in Hong Kong, Wu Yi called for an end to politicizing economic issues. One key move by her country should help here. Bowing to international pressure, in July China revalued the yuan by a modest 2.1%, scrapping the yuan’s ten-year-old peg to the U.S. dollar and replacing it with a tightly managed float against a basket of unspecified foreign currencies, in which the dollar will likely occupy a prominent place.

#3 Yulia Tymoshenko
Former prime minister,Ukraine
Tymoshenko, 44, was one of the leaders of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution last fall that toppled a stagnant, corrupt regime. For her support, the country’s new president, Victor Yushchenko, appointed her prime minister, a post she is using forcefully to shake up Ukrainian oligarchs. Her bold moves to re-privatize industrial assets, allegedly bought on the cheap by billionaires like Rinat Akhmetov and Victor Pinchuk, have met with criticism both inside and outside Ukraine. The discontent has finally caught up with her. Tymoshenko was sacked by Yuschenko in September. But don’t count her out quite yet. Tymoshenko is used to controversy, having fallen out with the sitting government in 2001, leading to her arrest and later dismissal. She will be back in parliamentary elections scheduled for March 2006.

#4 Gloria Arroyo
President.Philippines
Arroyo, 58, is now fighting to hold on to her job as the opposition party seeks to file impeachment charges against her over a series of scandals, and her attempts to fix Manila’s weak finances are falling apart, causing frustrated technocrats to bolt from her government. After donning the mantle of president in 2001, Arroyo tried to work diligently on her governing platform, which includes the eradication of poverty, which helped her win re-election in 2004. Nevertheless, despite a growing economy (in 2004, the Philippines economy grew an estimated 6.1%, up from 4.7% in 2003), Arroyo’s stewardship has been burdened by a Muslim insurgency and the Philippines’ designation as the second most corrupt country in Asia, according to a survey of businessmen conducted by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. Arroyo, a former classmate of Bill Clinton’s at Georgetown University and a onetime economics professor, is currently under investigation by lawmakers into allegations she cheated to win last year’s election; to date Arroyo has declined to testify before her government’s Congress.

#5 Margaret (Meg) Whitman
Chief executive, eBay, U.S.
As ruler of the world’s biggest online auction site, Whitman, 49, has successfully beaten back stiff competition from Amazon.com and Yahoo!. To do that, she has swiftly fixed any problems, has faithfully tried to weed out the fakes on her site and has posted a consistent flow of profits, making eBay the world’s most valuable Internet brand. All this is to be expected. Whitman has an impressive, blue-chip résumé, with executive stints at Hasbro, the Walt Disney Co. and Bain & Co., among others. Whitman also serves on the boards of eBay as well as DreamWorks Animation, Procter & Gamble and the Gap. Despite her stock’s volatility, her personal holdings are valued at $1.6 billion, making Whitman one of the richest people on the planet.

#6 Anne Mulcahy
Chief executive officer, Xerox,U.S.

Having pulled Xerox out of a near-fatal slump in 2002, Mulcahy, 52, is now looking to get her company back to the top of the tech world. Her ideas: color printing and lucrative consulting services. It’s a tough space to exist in, with competitors like HP, Kodak and Dell battling for pieces of the printing, copying and services businesses. To highlight how Xerox has changed, Mulcahy, who took over the top job in 2001, has yanked the company’s tagline, “The Document Company,” in favor of going solo with the Xerox name. A Xerox veteran, she started as a lowly field-sales rep 30 years ago. Working at Xerox is all in the family for Mulcahy. Her husband is a retired Xerox exec, and her older brother now runs the global services group. One of the few elite women to run a top public company, Mulcahy is a coveted choice on corporate boards, serving on the boards of Citigroup and Target.

#7 Sallie Krawcheck
Chief financial officer, Citigroup,U.S.

This former equity analyst, dubbed “Mrs. Clean” thanks to her frank demeanor and focus on ethics, has risen at a blistering speed to the top ranks on Wall Street. After two years heading Smith Barney, the business unit containing Citigroup’s previously ailing equity research and global private-client groups, Krawcheck, 40, was tapped to be the finance chief of Citigroup. She is viewed as one of the company’s next generation of leaders and is undoubtedly one of the most influential women on Wall Street. Her power may increase as upheaval in the top ranks roils her company, notably, the imminent departure of Citigroup President Robert Willumstad. But Krawcheck has been regarded as a stabilizing force. So far, the former Sanford C. Bernstein chief executive has received good grades for restoring the reputation of a division tarnished by charges of “spinning” initial public offerings and biased stock recommendations.

#8 Brenda Barnes
Chief executive officer, Sara Lee,U.S.

Barnes, 51, became chief executive earlier this year after Sara Lee announced a major restructuring that included the planned sale of product lines totaling $8.2 billion in revenue. At the same time, Barnes is tackling corporate inefficiencies by encouraging shared purchasing between divisions and less bureaucracy. Barnes raised eyebrows when she left PepsiCo in 1998 to spend more time with her family. Ever since Barnes got back on the “on-ramp” into the corporate world, she has been the most oft-cited example in the business press of a woman who ditched her corporate career to spend time with her family, only to regain corporate power.

#8 Brenda Barnes
Chief executive officer, Sara Lee,U.S.

Barnes, 51, became chief executive earlier this year after Sara Lee announced a major restructuring that included the planned sale of product lines totaling $8.2 billion in revenue. At the same time, Barnes is tackling corporate inefficiencies by encouraging shared purchasing between divisions and less bureaucracy. Barnes raised eyebrows when she left PepsiCo in 1998 to spend more time with her family. Ever since Barnes got back on the “on-ramp” into the corporate world, she has been the most oft-cited example in the business press of a woman who ditched her corporate career to spend time with her family, only to regain corporate power.

#10 Melinda Gates
Co-founder, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,U.S.

The numbers are both staggering and disturbing. Millions of children die every year of diseases that are preventable. Just half of all African-American and Hispanic students graduate from high school. Thousands of homeless people sleep on the streets every night. These are the statistics that have so distressed Melinda Gates, 41, and her husband, billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, that the two started an endowment, now at $28.8 billion, to fight for better health care and education for the poor around the world, as well as for at-risk families in Washington State and Oregon. Gates is also on the boards of The Washington Post Co. and drugstore.com.

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Top and Best Ten University in the U.S
If you have seen the rank, then here it is.  The list below provides you with a list of the most popular University in the United States.

1. Harvard University
Harvard University, created in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Seven presidents of the United States – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush – were graduates of Harvard. Its faculties have produced more than 40 Nobel laureates.
E-mail: webmaster@harvard.edu

2. Princeton University
Princeton is among the wealthiest universities in the world, with an endowment just over 11 billion US dollars (#4th largest in the United States) sustained through the continued donations of its alumni and maintained by investment advisors. Princeton has traditionally focused on undergraduate education and academic research, though in recent decades it has increased its focus on graduate education and now offers a large number of top-rated professional Master’s degrees and PhD programs in a range of subjects. Its library holds over six million volumes.
E-mail: uaoffice@princeton.edu

3. Yale University
Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. The university’s assets include a $15.2 billion endowment (the second-largest of any academic institution in the world) and more than a dozen libraries that hold a total of 11 million volumes. Yale has 3,200 faculty members, who teach 5,200 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students.
E-mail: graduate.admissions@yale.edu

4. University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn has also been recognized as a leader in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, architecture, engineering and education. It is particularly noted for its professional programs including Penn’s schools of business, law and medicine.

5. Duke University
The university is ranked among the world’s best institutions academically. Duke’s research expenditures are among the largest in the U.S. and the athletic program is one of the nation’s elite.
E-mail: gilbert.merkx@duke.edu

6. Stanford University

Stanford built its international reputation as the pioneering Silicon Valley institution through top programs in business, engineering and the sciences, spawning such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, VMware,Yahoo!, Google, and Sun Microsystems – indeed, “Sun” originally stood for “Stanford University Network.” The university also offers programs in the humanities and social sciences, particularly creative writing, history, government, economics, communication and psychology.
E-mail: admission@stanford.edu

7.  California Institute of Technology(Caltech)
Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. Caltech also operates and manages the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), an autonomous-space-flight complex that oversees the design and operation of most of NASA’s space-probes.
E-mail: today@caltech.edu

8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Institute has played a key role in developing the electronic digital computer, the inertial navigation systems used in missiles and spacecraft, and biomedical engineering. MIT maintains an undergraduate exchange program with the University of Cambridge in England, MIT has also set up relationships with the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore known as the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), which covers 5 major programs.

9. Columbia University
CU’s undergraduate schools are Columbia College (CC), the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and the School of General Studies (GS). The university has numerous graduate schools, the most notable of which include the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Graduate School of Journalism, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the Columbia Law School. As of 2005, 73 Columbia University affiliates have been honored with Nobel Prizes for their work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics.

10. Dartmouth College
In addition to its liberal arts undergraduate program, Dartmouth has medical, engineering, and business schools, as well as 18 graduate programs in the arts and sciences; hence it would tend to be called a university in standard American usage.
E-mail: admissions.office@dartmouth.edu

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