Glamour Magazine's December 2007 issue features the 13 women chosen as this year's Women of the Year. Workerette.com would like to congratulate all of the women chosen this year, as well as those considered for the exciting title, as women who are role models, leaders, activists, healers, artists, and more.
Most notable are not the movie stars and well known names, but the "real" women we don't meet on the tabloids and fashion spreads. Glamour has taken the time to recognize the Ivy League presidents: Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania), Drew Faust (Harvard University), Ruth Simmons (Brown University), and Shirley Tilghman (Princeton University).
Also of note are Alice Waters (of Edible Schoolyard fame), Lorena Ochoa (the world's #1 female golfer), Victoria Hale (founder of the Institute for OneWorld Health), and war correspondent Lara Logan. Don't get me wrong - the other women in the creative arts are definitely leaders and role models - but it's so nice to see names that we don't necessarily see elsewhere on lists like this. However, Toni Morrison is certainly deserving of her Lifetime Achievement kudo.
Most importantly, I'd like to draw your attention to the group of women chosen as the Women of the Year Fund honorees. The women of the Empowering Hands organization are former child soldiers forced to serve in Uganda, who are not only rebuidling their own lives - they are assisting others who have had the same fate. These women are a true light in the night and they are proof that we women can overcome and become more than we ever thought possible after tragedy strikes.
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