14 DAY TRIAL // On Mother's day, Forbes Magazine has published a piece on the richest moms in the world, who manage to somehow have extraordinary careers and raise kids at the same time.
Tory Burch, Gina Rinehart, Laurene Powell Jobs, Sara Blakely are mentioned in this top five, but we will be covering Meg Whitman, Joanne (JK) Rowling and Savitri Jindal.
Two of these women share the merit of having created their own fortunes, while the third has had an impressive life as businesswoman and mother.
Margaret C. Whitman went to Princeton and Harvard and worked for Procter & Gamble, Disney, Hasbro and eBay, and she is currently heading Hewlett-Packard.
She has two sons and her mother and role model is an ambitious woman who has learned Mandarin late in life and has repeatedly traveled to China.
Whitman plans to enter politics, running for governor in California, a position currently held by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Joanne (JK) Rowling's life story is truly a tale of rags to riches. Living in Edinburgh, Scotland and raising her child on her own, she wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in cafes while battling financial troubles.
She then made it to writing a series of best-selling books, gathering a following and having her works translated into one of the most successful movie series of the last decades.
She went from having trouble paying her rent to being a billionaire, then had two other children.
Savitri Jindal is in fact the richest woman on the entire Asian continent, and she has inherited her role as head of OP Jindal Group from her late husband. The india-based business centers on steel and power.
Jindal has had nine children while being active in business and politics. She’s currently acting as non-executive chairman while her four sons are in charge of sections of the company.
