Women's Era: 9 Female Billionaires Around The World

By siliconindia | Monday, 02 February 2015, 11:22 Hrs

# Liliane Bettencourt
Net Worth- $36 Billion

Liliane Bettencourt, 89 possess L'Oreal cosmetics which makes her the France’s richest woman. She is the only child to late Mr. Eugene Schueller the founder of L’oreal. As of February 2014, she is the Europe's wealthiest woman with an estimated net worth of $34 billion. She is one of the biggest shareholders of L’Oreal and owns 31 percent of L'Oreal cosmetics.

In 1987 Bettencourt, together with her husband and daughter, founded the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation to support and develop medical, cultural and humanitarian projects.

The Foundation, which benefits from assets of 150 million Euros and an annual budget of approx 15 million Euros devotes approximately 55 percent of its funds to scientific education and research, 33 percent to humanitarian and social projects and 12 percent to culture and arts.

# Jacqueline Mars
Net Worth- $24.4 Billion

Jacqueline Mars is the granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, Founders of the American candy company Mars Incorporated. She is the public face of the Mars business group. The company has bunch of brands like Snickers, Pedigree, M&M and Milky Way which are quite famous across the globe.

She is the fourth richest American woman and has been ranked the 52nd richest person in the world and the 26th richest person in America by Forbes.

The combined sales of all the business undertakings of the company exceed $30 billion and her shares in the company is said to be more than $10 billion.