MIAMI – More and more women are becoming more and more mega-wealthy.
The new Forbes list of the world's billionaires includes more women than ever before.
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256 women made the list out of 2,208 billionaires worldwide. While making up just 12 percent of the planet's super rich, it's still a record high for women.
Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart creator Sam Walton, charted in at 16th place with $46 billion. That's just a few billion ahead of the $42.2 billion of Françoise Bettencourt Meyers of the L’Oréal family.
The New York Post reports 72 of the women on the billionaires list were self-made women, which is also the most ever.
The oldest female billionaire is Ana Maria Brescia Cafferata, 93, from Peru who has $1.5 billion, and the youngest is 21-year-old Norwegian, Alexandra Andresen, with $1.47 billion.