In the FORBES 2017 World billionaires list, 227 women were present, a jump from last years 202, and created a world record. A 94-year-old L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt tops the list with a net worth of $39.5 billion. Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart Founder Sam Walton, is the world's second-richest woman, Jacqueline Mars, granddaughter of the founders of American candy company Mars is the third.