Ginny Rommetty, CEO of IBM, she commands a company that employs almost 400,000 people, her annual salary (bonuses and other perks aside) is close to $20,000,000 a year. Mary Barra, CEO of GM, she makes over $16M a year, she heads a company that employs over 216,000 people (so basically, if you count everyone in Salt Lake City you'd still be 26,000 people short of the number people whose jobs fall below hers at the company), GM declared a revenue of almost 39 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2015. May-Britt Moser is a Neuroscientist who won the Nobel in Medicine in 2014. She's also the head of her department at her University in Norway. General Ann Dunwoody was the first female 4-star General in the history of the US Army. During her time (she's retired now) she managed the largest logistics operation in the history of the US Army (which is not exactly small).  There are thousands of others, but I'd say those are better examples of "empowered women," you know, considering they are either women that can wield power over literally hundreds of thousands of employees any day of the week, or send ripples throughout the economy by decisions they make at work, or because they can speak at a conference anywhere and large groups of people will stop and listen. Being fat is not power, it's just personal neglect. Power is power.