Women's Era: 9 Female Billionaires Around The World

# Georgina Rinehart
Net Worth- $20.01 Billion

Georgina Rinehart, also called as Gina is an Australian mining heiress and Chairman of Hancock Prospecting group.  Unlike the aforementioned successful business women, success was not just gifted to Gina Rinehart, rather she earned it.

She went all the way to making his dad’s struggling mining concern, Hancock Prospecting, one of the greatest in the industry with an eye toward expansion and profit. She was ranked the wealthiest person in Australia by both Forbes Asia and Business Review Weekly in 2011.

Rinehart growth was quite amazing that in 2007, her wealth amounted to $1 billion which more than doubled to $2.4 billion next year and in spite of the global economic slowdown, she was reported to be having assets worth $9 billion, which once again doubled to $18 in 2012.

In 2014, Rinehart was listed as the 27th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes; a decline of nine positions from her 2013 ranking of the 16th most powerful woman.

# Susanne Klatten
Net Worth- $17.4 Billion

Susanne Klatten is the richest woman in Germany and the 49th richest person in the world. Upon her father Herbert Quandt’s death, Klatten inherited partial ownership of renowned carmaker BMW and 50.1 percent stake in pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturer Altana, which she now wholly owns.

She owns an approximately 25 percent stake in German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex and, in 2012, bought stakes from Dutch biotech company Paques and used oil recycling company Avista Oil of Germany.

She has been a member of the University Council of the Technical University of Munich since 2005. In 2007 she was awarded the Bayerischer Verdienstorden, the Bavarian Order of Merit. She is one of the biggest donors of the centre-right political party the Christian Democratic Union.

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