Top 10 Richest Women In The World

• 5:23 pm July 22, 2020
• vignesh

Women are known to rule the roost, nothing can stop them if they decide on something. They are determined, passionate, and interestingly kind and compassionate too.
They don't like to be known as someone who is a boss woman, they would happily want to do their work and disappear. But only if they aren't given their due, would they take matters in their own hand and set things straight.
Usually, the title of the world's richest far often has been associated with men. We at genmice are going to break those sterotypes and present to you, list of richest women in the world.

10 Gina Rinehart

Not many know this fact that she is Australia's richest person. She built her fortune on iron ore. She is the daughter of Lang Hancock an iron-ore explorer. She has been the chairperson of mineral extracting company Hancock Prospecting Group since 1992.
She made the biggest piece of her fortune from the Roy Hill mining project, which started shipments to Aisa in 2015. Unfortunately, her fortune has seen a reduction of $2 billion in the past year, due to the coronavirus pandemic that pushed down the values in the iron ore industry.
Net Worth: $13.1 Billion
Source of wealth: Mining
Country: Australia

9 Zhong Huijuan

She is the chairperson of Chinese drugmaker Hansoh Pharmaceutical. The company produces oncology, psychoactive, anti-diabetic, and other medicinal drugs. When the COVID-19 pandemic was most prevalent in her home country, the stock of the company rose to 10% from early January through mid-March.
She is married to Sun Piaoyang who is the billionaire chairman of Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. She owns over three-quarters of Hansoh Pharmaceutical with their daughter, Sun Yuan.
Net Worth: $ 14.6 Billion
Source of wealth: Pharmaceuticals
Country: China

8 Laurene Powell Jobs

She is the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. She bought a minority stake in 2017 in the parent of the NBA's Washington Wizards and the NHL's Washington Capitals. She has purchased stakes including a majority of The Atlantic magazine and all of California Sunday and Popup Magazine.
Through Emerson Collective, an organization which she heads, it has been putting her fortune to work. The Emerson Collective Foundation was launched by her during the second half of 2016 with a gift of $1.2 billion and much of it in Disney shares. From last year, her fortune is down by $2.2 billion, partly due to a decline in Disney's share price.
Net Worth: $ 16.4 Billion
Source of Wealth: Apple, Disney
Country: United States

7 Susanne Klatten

She is an heir to carmaker BMW and owing to this, her net worth has tumbled by 20% in the last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, car sales have slowed down and BMW's stock fell 24% in the first half of March. She is also the sole owner and deputy chairman of Atlanta which is a pharmaceutical and specialty chemical corporation.
Susanne Klatten is an economist with an M.B.A helped transform her grandfather's Atlanta AG into a world-class pharmaceutical specialty chemical corporation.
Net Worth: $16.8 Billion
Source of Wealth: BMW, Pharmaceuticals
Country: Germany

6 Yang Huiyan

She owns 57% and is on the board of Hong Kong-listed real estate developer Country Garden, a company which her father founded and is the chairsperson. She also chairs Bright Scholar Education Holdings which is a Chinese education company that went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has set-up robotic, automated food serving stations in Wuhan, the place where the coronavirus originated to feed Chinese medical workers.
Net Worth: $ 20.3 Billion
Source of Wealth: Real Estate
Country: China

5 Jacqueline Mars

She and her brother John, each inherited one-third ($35bn) of the candy company which is known for M&Ms and Milky Way bars.
For nearly 20 years, Jacqueline Mars worked for the company and served on the board until 2016. The chairman of Mar's board of directors is her son Stephen Badger.
Net Worth: $ 24.7 Billion
Source of Wealth: Candy, Pet Food
Country: United States