Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer on this year's Forbes Most Powerful Women ...

From heads of state to AI innovators and cultural power players, this year’s list reflects a new era of influence featuring ...

Across the world, women political leaders — from presidents to parliamentarians — are facing a disturbing resurgence of ...

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women.

when women in boardrooms or at the helm of major institutions were a rarity. In assembling our biennial list of the Most Powerful Women in Washington, we had the opposite problem: We came across so ...

Across the United States, women are proving themselves to be powerhouses as they step over broken rungs and smash through ...

Heartfelt messages poured in for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday after she announced her plans to retire, bringing an end to her historic nearly 40-year career in Congress. Seen as ...

In a video letter to her constituents, California Democrat Nancy Pelosi ended months of speculation about her political future, announcing she would not seek reelection to Congress. Elected in 1987, ...

P ower takes many forms, and in 2025, women continue to wield it across politics, business, technology, and culture. Forbes’ ...