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Here is the Top 10 Most Powerful Women in the world

1. Angela Merkel
2. Sheila C. Bair
3. Indra K. Nooyi
4. Angela Braly
5. Cynthia Carroll
6. Irene B. Rosenfeld
7. Condoleezza Rice
8. Ho Ching
9. Anne Lauvergeon
10. Anne Mulcahy

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These 10 Powerful Modern Women Leaders represented monumental firsts and some lost their lives for it, but all of these “Iron Ladies” showed that women can indeed run a country, even decades at a time.

Here is the list of Top 10 The Most Powerful Modern Women Leaders (The Top 10 Iron Ladies )

1. Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of Britain
2. Indira Gandhi - India
3. Margaret Thatcher - Britain
4. Golda Meir -Israel
5. Angela Merkel - Germany
6. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -Liberia
7. Corazon Aquino -Philippines
8. Benazir Bhutto -Pakistan
9. Sirivamo Bandaranaike -Sri Lanka
10. Yulia Tymoshenko - Ukraine

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