powerful women in a man's world

does it seem crazy to anyone else that forbes' list of the top 100 most powerful women includes 2 women that work in packaged goods? i'm sorry, but how powerful can the woman in charge of producing, distributing and marketing sugary sodas and potato chips be? i can't believe she's just one off from good old condi. well, maybe i can. condi probably likes soda and chips as much as the rest of us.

1. Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany
2. Wu Yi: Vice Premier of China
3. Ho Ching: Chief executive, Temasek Holdings (Singapore)
4. Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Secretary of State
5. Indra K. Nooyi: Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo
6. Sonia Gandhi: President, India's Congress Party
7. Cynthia Carroll: Chief executive, Anglo American
8. Patricia A. Woertz: Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland
9. Irene Rosenfeld: Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods
10. Patricia Russo: Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent

quite possibly the most interesting part of this random discovery (don't ask what possessed me to look up the world's most powerful women, 'cause i really couldn't tell you) is the other lists in forbes' "people" category. now what percentage of the people in the other lists are men do you think? i'd say 90 or so (excluding the women's list, of course). it's funny that women are 50% of the population and still so powerless in the grand scheme of things.

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