Fortune names the most powerful women in business

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10. Phebe Novakovic | CEO and chairman, General Dynamics
Previous rank: 11
2014 revenues (millions): $30,852
2014 profits (millions): $2,533
Photo: General Dynamics Via AP Fortune on Thursday revealed its "Most Powerful Women in Business"... Image 2 of 11 9. Irene Rosenfeld | CEO and chairman, Mondelez International
Previous rank: 7
2014 revenues (millions): $34,244
2014 profits (millions): $2,184
Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP 9. Irene Rosenfeld | CEO and chairman, Mondelez International
... Image 3 of 11 8. Sheryl Sandberg | COO, Facebook
Previous rank: 10
2014 revenues (millions): $12,466
2014 profits (millions): $2,940
Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP 8. Sheryl Sandberg | COO, Facebook
Previous rank: 10
2014... Image 4 of 11 7. Meg Whitman | CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Previous rank: 6
2014 revenues (millions): $111,454
2014 profits (millions): $5,013
Photo: Richard Drew, AP 7. Meg Whitman | CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Previous rank: 6
2014... Image 5 of 11 6. Abigail Johnson | CEO and president, Fidelity Investments
Previous rank: 9
2014 revenues (millions): $14,900
2014 profits (millions): NA
Photo: Essdras M Suarez, The Boston Globe Via Getty Images 6. Abigail Johnson | CEO and president, Fidelity Investments
... Image 6 of 11 5. Ellen Kullman | CEO and chairman, DuPont
Previous rank: 5
2014 revenues (millions): $36,046
2014 profits (millions): $3,625
Photo: Paul Morigi, Getty Images For Fortune 5. Ellen Kullman | CEO and chairman, DuPont
Previous rank: 5
2014... Image 7 of 11 4. Marilyn Hewson | CEO, chairman and president, Lockheed Martin
Previous rank: 4
2014 revenues (millions): $45,600
2014 profits (millions): $3,614
Photo: Jeffrey MacMillan 4. Marilyn Hewson | CEO, chairman and president, Lockheed Martin
... Image 8 of 11 3. Ginni Rometty | CEO, chairman and president, IBM
Previous rank: 1
2014 revenues (millions): $92,793
2014 profits (millions): $12,022
Photo: Paul Morigi, Getty Images For Fortune 3. Ginni Rometty | CEO, chairman and president, IBM
Previous rank:..
. Image 9 of 11 2. Indra Nooyi | CEO and chairman, PepsiCo
Previous rank: 3
2014 revenues (millions): $66,683
2014 profits (millions): $6,513
Photo: CNBC, Adam Jeffrey, NBCU Photo Bank Via Getty Images 2. Indra Nooyi | CEO and chairman, PepsiCo
Previous rank: 3
2014... Image 10 of 11 1. Mary Barra | CEO, General Motors
Previous rank: 2
2014 revenues (millions): $155,929
2014 profits (millions): $3,949
Photo: Cliff Owen, AP 1. Mary Barra | CEO, General Motors
Previous rank: 2
2014... Image 11 of 11 Fortune names the most powerful women in business 1 / 11 Back to Gallery gallery_thumbs_close|article-gallery-6498942|article-gallery-6498942|0 gallery_overlay_close|article-gallery-6498942|article-gallery-6498942|0 Fortune on Thursday revealed its " Most Powerful Women " in business 2015 list, which includes 51 women from business, technology and entertainment. Twenty-seven of them are CEOs.
Mary Bara, CEO of General Motors, took the top spot on the list. Meg Whitman, CEO, chairman and president of Hewlett-Packard, is the highest ranked Bay Area leader, coming it at 7th. This is a small dip since last year, when she ranked 6th. In 2014, HP had about $111.5 billion in revenues and $5 billion in profits.
Click through the slides above to see who else made it into the top 10.
The Bay Area is also represented by Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (8th), Oracle's Safra Catz (12th), Apple's Angela Ahrendts (16th), Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (18th), YouTube's Susan Wojcicki (19th), Google's Ruth Porat (26th), Wells Fargo's Carrie Tolstedt (27th) and Intel's Diane Bryant (43rd).
There are 12 newcomers on this year's list, including musician Taylor Swift, who's also the youngest person on Fortune's list at age 25. Mayer is the second youngest, at age 40.
The 27 CEOs on the Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" list -- the most it's ever had -- control $1 trillion in stock market value, according to Fortune. The company considers four criteria in its ranking: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the women's career and their social and cultural influence. Carly Fiorina took the top spot on Fortune's first-ever "Most Powerful Women" list in 1998.