Fortune Most Powerful Women

March is Women’s History Month. What started as a list, #FortuneMPW has evolved into the world’s most extraordinary leadership community—bringing together the most powerful women in business, along with select leaders in government, philanthropy, education, and the arts. Through wide-ranging conversations, they share insights, inspire change, and offer advice. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re looking back at some of Fortune’s magazine covers featuring trailblazing women in business. Learn more about the #FortuneMPW community here: https://lnkd.in/eyr3BbYz

At the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night, singer Lady Gaga accepted the Innovator award.⁠ ⁠ After being presented with the award by rapper Doechii, Lady Gaga said, "Even though the world might consider a woman in her late 30s old for a pop star—which is insane—I promise I'm just getting warmed up."⁠ ⁠ “Innovation isn’t about breaking rules; it’s about writing your own and convincing the world they were theirs all along," she added.⁠ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eUaa9snY

When Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo confirmed she was being paid more than $20m a year for her work on the show, she hoped it would be celebrated as evidence of equal pay coming to Hollywood. However, before The Hollywood Reporter interview—which revealed Pompeo’s $575,000 an episode income, plus a seven-figure signing bonus and equity points in the series estimated to be worth $13m—went live, Pompeo was warned by her manager that she may not get exclusively positive feedback. At the time, Pompeo told the Reporter the deal had been struck as she took on the solo lead role of the medical drama, named after her character. But in a recent podcast interview with Alex Cooper’s ‘Call Her Daddy’, Pompeo reflected that she hadn’t considered her success wouldn’t be celebrated by her peers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eNCrGZt3

Language is an incredibly powerful tool—but not all languages are represented equally in technology. Cohere for AI is tackling this disparity, focusing on making AI accessible to more languages. ⁠ ⁠ “I think people forget—we can build the best model in the world, but what matters is how people feel about it and whether it works for them,” Sara Hooker, head of Cohere for AI, tells Fortune. ⁠ Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research lab of $5.5 billion AI company Cohere, has been among the first to offer AI models for languages like Korean and Swahili. And through an initiative that the organization launched two years ago, 3,000 researchers from all around the world collaborated with Cohere for AI on multilingual AI research. ⁠ Read more: https://lnkd.in/eTfYQEkg

I caught up with Gwyneth Paltrow about the future of goop, including its recent layoffs, journey to profitability, and whether she'd sell (not even thinking about it for at least three years). Gwyneth speaks founder fluently! She drops terms like LTV in conversation and says she learned it all from her female-founder group chat. She tells me that Goop revenue grew 10% between 2023 and 2024 and that Goop's layoffs were about putting payroll costs back into growth. Read the full Fortune interview: https://lnkd.in/eMZgSPPr

Melinda French Gate’s ex-husband might be one of the most famous entrepreneurs on the planet, but she doesn’t believe that being a billionaire automatically consigns an individual to a certain stereotype. In a time of “masculine energy” at Meta and bromances between former Big Tech rivals, French Gates told Elle this week that billionaires shouldn’t be seen as a single entity. When asked about the message being sent to the public by the coalition of tech titans, French Gates said: “I think it’s really important to not see billionaires as a monolith. “And not all of them need to stand on a stage to talk about or to demonstrate what they’re doing.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/exrYE94v

“The moon to Mars—that’s our outlook." For NASA’s Sunita “Suni” Williams, a scheduled eight-day trip to the International Space Station last summer has instead become a nine-month work assignment. Williams, 59, and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore initially remained at the ISS last June after the Boeing Starliner craft they were aboard malfunctioned. Officials ultimately decided to return the Starliner to Earth uncrewed last September, while William and Wilmore, now fully integrated into the crew of Expedition 72 at the ISS, stayed in space. In an extensive interview with Fortune months before her mission began, Williams expanded on that idea—and the short- and longer-term outlook for space travel. Read more: https://lnkd.in/egpt6Zka

“It’s [Goop] very much back to its DNA of being a pioneer in content and beauty and fashion—being that go-to place for women who trust that we do the work and research to surface and make the best of the best.” It’s been almost 17 years since Gwyneth Paltrow launched goop as a newsletter—since then there have been beauty products, a fashion line, vibrators, and vagina candles. But this year—after some tough restructuring—Goop is getting back to its basics, Paltrow tells Fortune in an exclusive interview. While the brand did multiple rounds of layoffs in 2024, Paltrow says that the overall business is healthy. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ek4Jg7gk

About five years ago, Amy Griffin started remembering. Through a combination of journaling and MDMA therapy, a long-buried trauma—repressed memories of childhood sexual assault—finally came to the surface. It’s a story that Griffin shares in her new book The Tell, which was just named the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick. In the memoir, Griffin recalls the picture-perfect version of her life growing up in Texas, before shattering that image with these memories—then retreading that narrative and reevaluating everything. During the time period that Griffin recounts experiencing an endless onslaught of memories, she was only a few years into running her firm, G9 Ventures. G9 has backed female-founded brands like Bumble, Saie, Bobbie, and Midi. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6xWEVit

"Don’t ever let somebody else’s feedback or opinion about you, or what you’re doing, and what your work is be the thing that quiets the voice deep inside of you." In an interview at the 2018 Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit, Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi shared her “single best piece of advice”: Don’t let others’ opinions quiet your voice. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAptkfwF