The Five Richest Women On The 2024 Forbes 400

There are more women on The Forbes 400—and they’re much richer—than last year.

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.

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[petermbuguanjoroge]

It is interesting that despite the gains women have made in the past 40 years with respect to work and gainful employment, most of the richest women inherited their wealth.

[FirstToComment]

Where are the self made ones ? 😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤫🤫

[lancecahill]

If you marry into money or inherit it, that shouldn’t count. That goes for both genders.

[todd-]

I’m not sure why you’re expecting the wealth gap to close when the women are inheriting their wealth. Why would you expect it ever to close when they aren’t creating anything from their own efforts.

[KrteenAnand]

Well the list is wrong savitri Jindal is the 4th richest with 43.5 billion dollars