Women of the Year Honored by Glamour

Glamour Magazine on Monday announced its annual ?Women of the Year? awards, and actress Nicole Kidman, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and child bride Nujood Ali were among the 10 extraordinary and inspirational winners. For women, the night was bigger than the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys combined. If you combined all those awards with the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, then you might have a sense of what it felt like to attend the 19th Annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards, held Monday night, Nov. 10, at Carnegie Hall, one of New York’s architectural splendors.
The ten women Glamour has chosen this year include Nicole Kidman, Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Tyra Banks, Chanel luxury brand chief executive Maureen Chiquet, Misty May-Treanor, Jane Goodall, Nujood Ali, Kerri Walsh and Kara Walker.

A Yemeni child bride, who drew international attention after refusing to follow tradition and stay next to a man more than 20 years her senior, received on Monday one of the ?Woman of the Year? awards along with nine other major public figures. Nujood Ali, who is only 10, was one of the jury?s picks for the prize as a result of her much-talked about story of revolt with regard to the arranged marriage set up by her family. As the dramatic incident was discussed in several magazines and was aired on shows by various television networks, people everywhere found out about her misfortune and, thus, she became a very appreciated celebrity.

Nicole Kidman confessed she was “overwhelmed” to be named as one of Glamour magazine’s Women Of The Year. The Oscar-winning actress and TV presenter Tyra Banks both spoke of how humbled they were to be among the ten women honoured alongside politicians Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, at the New York ceremony on Monday.
Nicole said: “It’s such a privilege, I feel a little overwhelmed. But at the same time I’m trying to be here, the reason I want to be here and speak tonight is on behalf of Unifem, because that’s the sort of cause I have been passionately involved with and hopefully for the next decade, two decades however long they’ll let me, I’ll be campaigning for them.”

Other well-known women who received the annual award included Hillary Clinton, for having a significant influence on generations of women; Maureen Chiquet, for her groundbreaking contribution to international business as well as Jane Goodall who devoted her life to bridging the human and animal worlds starting with the groundbreaking chimpanzee behavioral research she began nearly 50 years ago, which continues today.

The winners, featured in the December issue of Glamour magazine on the newsstands on Tuesday, were picked by an advisory board made up of past honorees ranging from Diane von Furstenberg to Nora Ephron to Queen Latifah.

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