#1) Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
#2) Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State, USA
#5) Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and Chief Executive, Xerox Corporation
#12) Melinda Gates, aka Mrs. Bill Gates
#13) Sonia Gandhi, President of India
#14) Oprah
#17) Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
#20) Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
#22) Margaret Whitman, Chief Executive and President of eBay
#33) Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
#37) Andrea Jung, the Avon Lady
#43) Laura Bush, aka Mrs. George W. Bush
#44) Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
#45) Gloria Arroyo, President of the Phillippines
#46) Queen Elizabeth II
#51) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
#55) Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
#63) Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia
#68) Han Myung-sook, Prime Minster of South Korea
#69) Meredith Vieira, Blonde Ditz on the Today Show
#81) Queen Rania of Jordan
#83) Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique
#89) Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minster of Jamaica
Granted I'm not qualified to make this sort of list, but does anyone else
think it's odd that the Avon Lady beat out the presidents of both our
countries?

Shinarae Lluminus

P.S. According to my calculations, the percent of the world's population with
either w woman head of state or head of government is around 15% to 20%.

The current president of India is Abdul Kalam. Sonia Gandhi is not,
and has never been, the president of the republic. She is currently
serving as the president of the Indian national congress (a
position that is comparable to the speaker of the house in the US).

++ Gore

Wups my bad, the list was right and I misread it.

Shinarae Lluminus