Tuesday, March 27, 2007

83 of Worlds 946 Billionaires are Women

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Actually, the title is wrong. Approximately 9% of the world's billionaires are women (The original video title is "83 of World's 946 Billionaires are Women." 83/949 = 0.087 = 9%).

The 1% refers to that amazing group of self-made female billionaires. Inheriting the money or gaining it through marriage would put the woman into the 9% but not the self-made 1%.

The top three richest women, all self-made, are especially amazing, given their obstacles. Oprah is a black woman which was/is a double obstacle. JK Rowling was a welfare mom. And the world's richest woman (and China's richest person), Zhang Yin, is perhaps the most amazing. China, after all is Communist. And still very traditional and sexist. In fact, as recently as 1949, rural female illiteracy was 99%.