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

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4 Mackenzie Bezos

In July 2019, Mackenzie finalised her divorce with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and thus she made her entry on the list. She received a quarter of her ex-husband's shares from e-coomerce giant Amazon.
She also signed a Giving Pledge, promising to offer away at least a minimum of half of her fortune in May 2019. She is an author and in 1992, she met Jeff when they both worked at hedge fund D. E. Shaw. They married next year and in 1994, moved to Seattle. Bezos has published two novels. He was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton and worked as a research assistant for her. She founded the Bystander Revolution which is an anti-bullying organisation in 2014.
Net Worth: $36 Billion
Source of Wealth: Amazon
Country: United States

3 Julia Koch

She joined the billionaires list after she and her three children inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries from her husband David. He passed away in August at the age of 79. In the 1980s, she moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to fashion designer Adolfo.
She also worked with several high-profile clients, including First Lady Nancy Reagan. In 1991, Julia met David and got married in 1996. She with her husband who had donated $10 million to Mount Sinai Medical Center and $10 million to Stanford's Children's Hospital to study food allergies.
Net Worth: $38.2 Billion
Source of Wealth: Koch Industries
Country: United States

2 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

She is the granddaughter of the L'Oreal founder Eugene Schueller and became France's reigning L'Oreal heiress in 2017 after her mother Liliane Bettencourt passed away at the age of 94. She was the world's richest woman.
Since 1997, she has served L'Oreal's board and is chairwoman of the family holding company. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fortune of Bettencourt Meyer's reduced by $400 million.
The company announced in March, that its factories will generate hand sanitizers to support the need of the French and European health authorities.
Net Worth: $ 48.9 Billion
Source of Wealth: L'Oreal
Country: France

Alice Walton

She is the only daughter of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. Walton became the richest woman in the world after losing the spot to L'Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers in 2019. There is market turbulence all over the world but Walton's fortune increased by 23% over the last year.
She does not have a role in Walmart but helps it to lead a program through the Walton family foundation which will issue $300 million in bonds to help charter schools to invest in it and to renovate their facilities.
Net Worth: $54.4 Billion
Source of Wealth: Walmart
Country: United States