The gender wealth gap among America’s richest people remains wide—there are only 67 women on this year’s Forbes 400 list—but it’s narrowing. Women now account for 17% of the list, up from 15% last year, and they hold 15% of the 400’s total wealth, up from 14% in 2023. As always, progress remains slow and steady.
In all, these 67 women are worth a combined $839 billion, up from the $621 billion that the 60 women on last year’s list held. Making it onto the Forbes 400 list this year required a minimum net worth of $3.3 billion–the highest cutoff to date.
Alice Walton is once again the richest American woman of all, a title she has held for nine out of the past ten years. The vast majority of her........