The Five Richest Women On The 2024 Forbes 400

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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.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahyoung/2024/10/01/the-10-richest-women-in-america-2024/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00The gender wealth gap among America's richest people remains wide.

00:04There are only 67 women on this year's Forbes 400 list.

00:09But that gap is narrowing.

00:11Women now account for 17 percent of the list, up from 15 percent last

00:16year, and they hold 15 percent of the 400's total wealth, up from 14

00:22percent in 2023.

00:23These 67 women are worth a combined $839 billion, some 220

00:32billion more than the women on the list held last year.

00:37The majority of the women on the Forbes 400 inherited their wealth.

00:41Less than 20 percent are self-made, compared to 76 percent of the men

00:45on the ranking. Five women have made the list for the first time this

00:50year, including Lindell Stephens-Greth, who joins after inheriting the

00:54$32.3 billion family fortune built by her father, oil tycoon Audrey

00:58Stephens, who died in August.

01:03Arista Network CEO Jayshree Ullal is the only self-made female

01:07newcomer, after shares of the computer networking company climbed

01:10more than 80 percent since last year's list, pushing her estimated

01:14net worth to $4.4 billion.

01:21This year's richest American women hail from 13 different industries.

01:25The most common is food and beverage, responsible for the fortunes of

01:2822 percent of female listees, including Chick-fil-A heiress Trudy

01:33Cathy White and Panda Express co-founder Peggy Chern.

01:38The second and third most represented industries among the list's

01:41women were technology and fashion and retail.

01:45Here are the five richest women on the 2024 Forbes 400.

02:15And the richest woman in America is Alice Walton.

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