Nigerias 1St Lady Billionaire Listed Among 7 Female Global Billionaires

IN THE Foundation OF Self-Made, hoodie-wearing technology billionaires, Sheryl Sandberg has pulled off no matter which improbable: She has associated their ranks without setting up her own company or writing a single line of code.

The fact that Facebook's clip energetic bureaucrat is a woman is inferred, of way, but it's equally noteworthy: Of the 268 newcomers to the 2014 FORBES Billionaires list, 42 are women-a single-year account and, further outstandingly, the highest-ever percentage of newcomers (and of women billionaires overall-172 out of 1,645 ).

That's progress. But only a bit. In a minute 32 billionaire women-or 1.9% of all the globe's billionaires-had a easy-to-read produce in building their own fortunes, as loathsome to inheriting one from a parent or husband. Sandberg joins the dozen women, plus Spanx's Sara Blakely, take shape architect Tory Burch and Oprah Winfrey, who delightful this do its stuff without the help of a husband or sibling. And only she andMeg Whitman, who worked at Hasbro and FTD with fusion eBay, delightful this do its stuff as hired hands of tech companies.