Why The Women Of KPop Demon Hunters Are On The Forbes Power Women List. Plus: Avoid Holiday Spending Debt Traps

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If there is one word that encapsulates what 2025 has meant for women, it is “complex.” After all, setbacks included job losses that rival those of the pandemic, a worsening toxicity of the online “manosphere,” and a certain presidential rebuke directed to a female reporter that invoked a farm animal. And yet, as I write in the introduction to this year’s list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women—which dropped yesterday—the women on the Forbes Power Women list are examples of resilience in turbulent times.

From Japan prime minister Sanae Takaichi (the first woman to hold the role in Japan’s history) to billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott (she’s given some $700 million to historically Black colleges and universities) and AMD CEO Lisa Su (she struck a deal with OpenAI to produce six gigawatts of AI chips over the next several years), the leaders and innovators on the 22nd annual Power Women list are powering massive ecosystems at scale. And they’re doing it around the globe.

I encourage you to dive into our Power Women package here, and its many stories: We have a deeper look at the crosscurrents within global politics affecting female leaders; a profile of the woman who could, if Netflix successfully purchases Warner Brothers Discovery, become the most powerful woman in Hollywood next year; and an explainer about

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