Michelle Obama has been ranked number one on the 2010 list of the ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ released by Forbes magazine.
The US First Lady took the top spot from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has topped the list for the last four years in a row.
Obama moved up from fortieth position last year, pushing Merkel to fourth position.
Forbes described Obama as a role model for the new generation. “A fashion icon and an athletic mother of two, [Obama] is Jackie Kennedy with a law degree from Harvard and street sense from Chicago’s South Side,” the magazine reported.
Obama has experienced increasingly higher approval ratings since becoming the first African-American First Lady in 2008.
Her passion for eradicating child obesity with the Lets Move! Campaign has brought the 44-year-old into the public arena. She aims to solve the obesity epidemic within one generation.
Amongst other top ranked women were Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, at number two with the the second-highest income for women in the US at $26.3 million.
The US First Lady took the top spot from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has topped the list for the last four years in a row.
Obama moved up from fortieth position last year, pushing Merkel to fourth position.
Forbes described Obama as a role model for the new generation. “A fashion icon and an athletic mother of two, [Obama] is Jackie Kennedy with a law degree from Harvard and street sense from Chicago’s South Side,” the magazine reported.
Obama has experienced increasingly higher approval ratings since becoming the first African-American First Lady in 2008.
Her passion for eradicating child obesity with the Lets Move! Campaign has brought the 44-year-old into the public arena. She aims to solve the obesity epidemic within one generation.
Amongst other top ranked women were Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, at number two with the the second-highest income for women in the US at $26.3 million.
Oprah Winfrey came in at number three on the list, and earned $315 million last year.
The Forbes top 100 list is also commonly a place of firsts—first female Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard ranked at 58.
Nancy Pelosi is the first female Speaker of the House at 11th spot, while race car driver Danica Patrick, ranked 96, is the first (and only) woman to have won an IndyCar series.
The Forbes top 100 list is also commonly a place of firsts—first female Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard ranked at 58.
Nancy Pelosi is the first female Speaker of the House at 11th spot, while race car driver Danica Patrick, ranked 96, is the first (and only) woman to have won an IndyCar series.
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