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Top 5 Powerful Women in History

Women are the future and they always have been. The question is who is leading this new female empowerment and who has been? A look throughout history can quickly depict that we have had brilliant females who have changed the world for the better. We are going to check out five of these woman and why they are so wonderful.

1.Angela Merkel

This brilliant woman is currently the Chancellor of Germany and not to mention she is number one on Forbes top 100 most powerful woman list. As populist, right-wing political movements spring up around the world, many have labeled Germany’s Chancellor as the last bastion of Western liberal power.

Merkel, who faces a challenging reelection bid in 2017, has been tasked with maintaining a united European front in the wake of Brexit, balancing growing Russian influence on the continent and managing more than 1 million migrants who have entered Germany in recent years.

2. Hillary Clinton

Clinton may have lost the 2016 election but that doesn’t move her spot on Forbes list either.

Hillary Clinton was the first and only former First Lady to run for public office, the first woman to be elected a U.S. senator from New York, and the first woman to become a Democratic nominee for U.S. President — an election that she lost in November 2016 to Donald Trump. Clinton ranked #2 on Forbes’ Power Woman list in 2016.

3. Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates has cemented her dominance in philanthropy and global development to the tune of $4.2 billion in giving in 2015 and more than $36.7 billion in grant payments since she founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband in 2000. Her work has inspired other big donors and has changed way funders think about effective philanthropy: highly targeted campaigns coupled with data-driven monitoring and global collaboration.

This doesn’t even include the amount of money that her and Mr. Gates bring in as a mutual income.

4. Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde was reelected in February 2016 to a second five-year term as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the organization that serves as economic advisor and backstop for 188 countries. When she took over in 2011, the world economy was still recovering from the financial crisis, and the IMF from an institutional one. In the ensuing years, Lagarde has managed to enroll countries as diverse as China, Russia and Britain into the IMF’s brand of fiscal discipline, even as they bridle at the stern conditions of her structural loans. She has also lent the institution a “more human face by addressing issues like gender and income inequality,” U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen wrote in a 2016 Time profile. Following Brexit, Lagarde must work with a divided Europe to ensure a stable economic recovery on the continent, particularly in Greece.

5. Oprah

Ringing us in at number 5 Oprah has been on this list for over two decades. Her social rights empowerment for women and minorities has been a beautiful journey to Oprah’s success and her many fans and followers.

Check out the video below for more on the most powerful women!

How Oprah Became so Powerful

Oprah is a internationally known TV presence known for her hit TV talkshow, her magazines and her book club. Oprah may seem as if she climbed to the top fairly easily but her journey was actually one of the most treacherous climbs in TV history.

Born in Mississippi but moved to Nashville to begin to launch her career. She began to work for a talk show called “people are talking.” Which she stayed with for 8 years.

After this talk show, Oprah was soon recruited to work for a show in Chicago which became known as the Oprah Winfrey show where Oprah would stay for 25 long seasons and mold her claim to fame.

Success and Fame

In 1994, with talk shows becoming increasingly trashy and exploitative, Winfrey pledged to keep her show free of tabloid topics. Although ratings initially fell, she earned the respect of her viewers and was soon rewarded with an upsurge in popularity. Her projects with Harpo have included the highly rated 1989 TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, which she also starred in. Winfrey also signed a multi-picture contract with Disney.

The initial project, 1998’s Beloved, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison and starring Winfrey and Danny Glover, got mixed reviews and generally failed to live up to expectations.

Winfrey, who became almost as well-known for her weight loss efforts as for her talk show, lost an estimated 90 pounds (dropping to her ideal weight of around 150 pounds) and competed in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., in 1995. In the wake of her highly publicized success, Winfrey’s personal chef, Rosie Daley, and trainer, Bob Greene, both published best-selling books.

Her network

The popularity of Winfrey’s show skyrocketed after the success of The Color Purple, and in September 1985 the distributor King World bought the syndication rights (the rights to distribute a television program) to air the program in one hundred thirty-eight cities, a record for first-time syndication. That year, although Donahue was being aired on two hundred stations, Winfrey won her time slot by 31 percent, drew twice the Chicago audience as Donahue, and carried the top ten markets in the United States.

Oprah’s renowned network is definitely her best level of success. The network displays every once and character of her guru-like persona.

Oprah’s difficult past has led her to becoming the most generous woman in the world. “You get a car, you get a car, you get a car!” Is the most infamous line of great generosity in the world.

Oprah’s genuine character is sure to trump any other media heads because she isn’t transparent like the rest of them.

I guess to sum it up we can say that Oprah’s claim to power is her genuine attitude in the media that is absent in most other talk show hosts that we consume everyday.

Her encouragement and need to make the world a better place should be an inspiration to celebrities across the globe.

Learn more about Oprah Winfrey from the video below!