Hi everybody I'm

I'm Brittany Lewis with Forbes Breaking News joining me now is my colleague

Maggie McGrath editor of Forbes Women Maggie thanks for coming on in

Thanks for having it's an exciting day. I want to extend a big

congratulations. The World 100 Most Powerful Women's List just dropped. First

give us an overview of the list.

There's so much I could say, but this is the Forbes calculation of the world's 100 most powerful women.

This is not to say there are only 100 women, but these are by our accounting in terms of money people led.

So if you are the head of a company, it's how many employees do you have, if you're the head of a country,

how many citizens are you leading?

So we do look at hard metrics here.

And I can launch into a bit of an overview of the top 10

if you're interested?

I would love that but before we do let's back pedal just a moment and what is the

inspiration behind the list?

I wouldn't call it inspiration so much as the necessity to track who are the women who are changing the world and who are decision makers.

Who wields the capital necessary to create change across the entrepreneurial landscape, across corporate America, and across businesses

worldwide.

And who are the decision makers?

You know, we have people making major policy decisions

in the US, in Europe, in Australia, etc.

And I think at a time where you still

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