All of the 20 richest women in the world –except for #17– inherited their money from either their husband or their father.
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 17 March 2021, are:
1. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, $73.6 billion
2. Alice Walton, $61.8 billion billion
3. MacKenzie Scott, $53 billion
4. Julia Koch, $46.4 billion
5. Miriam Adelson, $38.2 billion
6. Jacqueline Mars, $31.3 billion
7. Yang Huiyan, $29.6 billion
8. Susanne Klatten, $27.7 billion
9. Gina Rinehart, $23.6 billion
10. Iris Fontbona, $23.5 billion