福布斯公布“全球富妈”排行榜-英语点津

权威财经杂志《福布斯》配合母亲节，公布全球富妈排行榜，共有70位母亲拥有逾10亿美元身价，其中7人是白手起家。中国有两位母亲上榜，分别是“SOHO中国”首席执行官张欣、玖龙纸业董事长张茵。《哈利·波特》系列儿童小说的作者罗琳，也是自力进入亿万富婆俱乐部的会员。

《福布斯》指出，亿万富妈绝大多数财富是继承丈夫或家族遗产，相形之下，亿万富爸中，白手打天下的则多达555位。

Zhang Xin, the CEO the Chinese property development company SOHO China and Yan Cheung, who runs Nine Dragons, which makes paperboard.

Wal-Mart widow tops world's richest mothers list

Having children isn't a barrier to making a billion dollars as eight women on a new list of the world's richest mothers showed.

The list compiled by Forbes.com reveals the 70 women around the globe who will celebrate Mother's Day Sunday as billionaires.

Christy Walton, the widow of John Walton who was the son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, tops the list with $22.5 billion.

She is followed by Liliane Bettencourt, 87, of France, whose father founded the cosmetic giant L'Oreal and Birgit Rausing, the 86-year-old widow of the Swedish creator of packaging giant Tetra Laval.

Of the 70 billionaire moms, only eight built their vast fortunes on their own, compared to 555 self-made billionaires who are fathers, according to Forbes.com.

Margaret Whitman, 53, known as Meg, built her fortune of $1.3 billion as the former CEO of online auction house eBay Inc. The mother of two sons is now a candidate to replace California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"For Whitman, motherhood was not a deterrent to her success, but an aid," Forbes said on its website.

Other self-made millionaires on the list include Rosalia Mera, who along with her former husband launched the Spanish clothing firm Zara, Doris Fisher of the clothing giant The Gap and Guiliana Benetton of the Italian firm Benetton.

Writer JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, also made the list of self-made billionaires along with Elena Baturina of Russia, who made her fortune in construction and Zhang Xin, the CEO the Chinese property development company SOHO China and Yan Cheung, who runs Nine Dragons, which makes paperboard.

Savitri Jindal, Asia's richest woman and the widow of the founder of steel and power conglomerate OP Jindal Group, has nine children, the most of any woman billionaire.

The full list can be found on http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/04/richest-moms-billionaire-whitman-rowling-walton-bettencourt.html

(Agencies)