Sheryl Sandberg named most powerful woman in technology by Forbes Magazine

Facebook COO  and author of the 2013 best-selling book Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg has been named the most powerful woman in technology on the Forbes’ Power Women list for the fourth consecutive year.

The list includes Susan Wojcicki, an early employee of Google who became YouTube CEO in February 2014 and  IBM CEO Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, Rometty joined IBM in 1981 at 24 as a systems engineer and became the company's first female CEO in 2012.

Also on the list is current HP CEO Meg Whitman and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. Whitman was earlier CEO of online auction house eBay, which she helped expand from 30 employees and $5 million in sales to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in revenue. Marissa was named Yahoo!’s CEO in 2012 making her one of the youngest CEOs on the books of the world’s largest companies.

Other names include Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz and Senior VP Angela Ahrendts, the first woman on Apple CEO Tim Cook's executive team.

The annual ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ list from Forbes highlights women’s achievements and their influence women in a variety of fields such as politics, industry and even celebrity role models.

Forbes started tracking tech as its own category four years ago and in a sector that is widely known for being unwelcoming to women, these leaders have continued to succeed and excel in their fields.

ART DIRECTOR HASN’T CHANGED HER CLOTHES IN 3 YEARS

Art Director Matilda Kahl would rather spend creative energy on work, not clothes. Which is why her office look hasn’t changed in 3 years. Made hygienically possible through multiple duplicates of a shirt and pants, the choice of a uniform (albeit, a vaguely stylish one) in a creative environment is both ironic and, as Kahl discovered, “provocative”.Catering to the desire to eliminate time spent picking out the best outfit each day – evidently not as ‘stressful’ a process for her male co-workers - can be interpreted as either lazy or genius. Either way, saving time, money and energy, while still looking the part? Not a bad idea.