Majalah Glamour kembali merilis 10 wanita perkasa versi majalah tersebut. Tokoh-tokoh yang dipilih dari berbagai bidang yang dianggap berprestasi di bidangnya, baik entertainment, politik, bisnis, olah raga, fashion bahkan ilmu pengetahuan. Demikian luas cakupan bidang yang dipilih sehingga melahirkan 'tokoh2' di luar dugaan, dan memang layak dimunculkan di pentas dunia. 

Acara megah ini berlangsung di New York 10 Nov 2008. 

Tahun ini, nama sejumlah artis di antaranya Nicole Kidman dan America Ferrera masuk dalam daftar penerima penghargaan, di bidang politik muncul nama Condolezza Rice, Menteri Luar Negeri Amerika, dan politikus kawasan dari partai Demokrat, Hillary Clnton, yang jg mantan first lady amerika.  Atau Maurenn dari rumah Chanel yag kerap mendapat penghargaan di dunia fashion dan entertain. 

Selain 10 wanita ini, Glamour Magazine juga memberi penghargaan pada Salman Rushdie. Masih ingat  Salman Rushdie??? Orang Iran yg paling diburu karena kontroversi bukunya, dan kini menjadi warganegara Inggris. 

 

SEKILAS TENTANG PARA PENERIMA PENGHARGAAN:

Nicole Kidman: The A-List Activist

The Oscar-winning star of Australia unloads decades' worth of revelations, ruminations-and so many useful life lessons, you'll want to take notes.

Beneath Nicole Kidman's unruffled exterior, there's always been something clearly, unapologetically complicated.

We've seen a hint of it in her gritty, bravura performances, whether in her dramatic roles (she became Virginia Woolf in The Hours) or her comic turns (remember her wacky scheming in To Die For?). We've been treated to her startling-for-a-movie-star candor: In 2006, when her husband, country singer Keith Urban, entered rehab for alcohol addiction virtually on the heels of their honeymoon, she didn't avoid discussing their ordeal; she said she hoped it would help other couples.

And the intense work ethic-more than 30 movies over the course of almost two decades-is hardly the stuff of blithe serenity, especially since she's kept up that hectic schedule while being a mom to Isabella, 16, and Connor, 13 (her children with ex-husband Tom Cruise), and now Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, five months.

It was really only a matter of time before the impassioned actress became an activist, too, as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). "We didn't call her; she called us," says Joan Libby Hawk, UNIFEM's chief of public affairs. "And she said, ‘I'm in this for the long haul.' There's a level of passion that shows." That passion was evident in her numerous visits to shelters for abused women in a range of countries, from Switzerland to Kosovo. When she meets victims at shelters, Kidman's empathy is marked-and effective, say the women who have accompanied her. At a safe house for survivors of domestic violence in Kosovo two years ago, "she was so modest and close to the women that she made it easy for them to speak about what happened," says the house's director, Sakibe Doli.

Baz Luhrmann, who directed Kidman in her current film Australia and 2001's Moulin Rouge!, has long seen the actress as both an "extreme professional" and "the most human friend...a true mother, a real person." Indeed, when Glamour sat down with Kidman at her hotel in London, where she was in rehearsals for the film musical Nine, we met that "real person."

 

Hillary Clinton: The Trailblazer 

This year Hillary Clinton did something very rare for a politician: She won while losing. No, she didn't reach the White House-but she motivated a new generation of women of every political stripe. Former GOP congresswoman Susan Molinari told Glamour, "I'm a Republican, but I'm also a mother of two girls, and now my daughters have no doubts that they could grow up to be president."

Hillary (does anyone use her last name?) sometimes calls herself "the best-known person in the world whom you really don't know." As it happens, I know Hillary Clinton. Over the past decade I have spent a decent amount of time with her, partly because I interviewed her several times for a book I wrote about presidential marriages, and partly because my husband served in her husband's cabinet. So I have seen her in the White House and the Senate, and as an honored guest at our home on close to a dozen occasions. Perhaps this middle distance-not part of Hillaryland and not a complete outsider-allows me a useful perspective on this trailblazing political pioneer.

She has always defied the odds-and her critics. As First Lady, when she was called down and out after the failure of her health care reform, she picked herself up and used her bully pulpit to become a global advocate for women and children.

On September 5, 1995, she stood before thousands at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and declared, to thunderous applause, "Women's rights are human rights." Then she took direct aim at China's shameful record on female infanticide, saying, "It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls." In Pakistan, India and Nepal, women waited for hours just to catch a glimpse of her. Hillary had found her platform and her self-confidence-and she made up her mind to run for public office herself.

Her resounding Senate victories followed, and then came her presidential bid. During the primaries, with her back to the wall, she again showed what she was really made of-grit, brilliance and a surprising vulnerability. Tearing up while answering a sympathetic question at a New Hampshire coffee klatch about how she could handle so much pressure and criticism, she gave us a rare glimpse into her soul, displaying a side she has been trained (and self-trained) to suppress in public.

Early on, she had campaigned not as a female, but as a politician who "happened to be a woman." As the months went by, that distinction seemed to erode. In almost imperceptible ways, she became more of what she really was-the first woman to mount a serious campaign for the presidency. She put more emphasis on women's issues and one of her real passions, health care. But Barack Obama, an extraordinary, history-making candidate in his own right, was on a roll, not to be denied.

Condoleezza Rice: The Champion for Women 

Here's how we're used to seeing Condoleezza Rice: clicking down a cool marble hallway in her Ferragamo heels and tailored suit, the only female in a phalanx of men, ready to wrangle arms agreements and negotiate border disputes. Who would have expected to find her in khakis and a casual shirt, sitting in a stifling, dirt-floor tent in a Sudanese camp for displaced persons, surrounded by women talking about rape? Yet that's where she was in July 2005, hearing from women who'd fled genocide in Darfur only to fall victim to attacks by rebel troops, camp guards, even government officers. "I was really emotionally drained by that," Rice recalls of her visit. "The experience led me to want to do something about sexual violence against women."

 

Nujood Ali & Shada Nasser: The Voices for Children 

At first glance, you'd never guess that Nujood Mohammed Ali is Yemen's most famous divorcee. She is slight, with a shy smile and coffee-color eyes. Ask what makes her laugh and she says, "My divorce." What else? Tom and Jerry cartoons-she is, after all, just 10 years old, and loves playing jacks and dolls with her favorite sister, Haifa. Nevertheless, this year Nujood became Yemen's first child bride to legally end her marriage. "I wanted to protect myself," she says, "and other girls like me."

Yemen is full of child brides. Roughly half of Yemeni girls are married before 18, some as young as eight. Child marriage, common in South Asia, sub- Saharan Africa and Middle-Eastern countries such as Yemen, is dangerous for brides and their children. As Glamour interviews Nujood with the help of a translator, an 18-year-old neighbor, who was married at 13 and now has four children, sits listening. Her toddler cries, and she swats him away. "They married me very young," she explains. "I don't have time to be a gentle mother."

Before her marriage, Nujood loved school-specifically math and Quran classes-and made her father promise not to pull her out to be wed. But when she was nine, her parents arranged a husband for her. Nujood was dazzled by her wedding presents: three dresses; perfume; two hairbrushes; and two hijabs, or women's head scarves. The groom, a 30-year-old courier, gave her a $20 ring, which Nujood says he soon took back to buy clothes for himself. She tells her story sitting on a grubby mattress in one of two rooms shared by her nine family members in Sana'a, Yemen's capital. A bare bulb illuminates a clock on the wall. It's nearly midnight, but Nujood's beloved Haifa, nine, is still selling gum on the street corner. Their father, Ali Mohammed Ahdal, a former street sweeper, has 16 children, two wives, and no job.
Poverty often leads to child marriage since a typical Yemeni earns about $900 a year, and marrying off girls means fewer mouths to feed. Then there is a question of honor. One of Nujood's sisters had been raped, another kidnapped. When her father heard the kidnapper was eyeing Nujood, he thought marriage would save her. Instead, she says, she was beaten by in-laws, and nights were a hellish game of tag, with Nujood running from room to room to escape sex with her husband; he raped her anyway.

Nujood begged for help. "I was sad and angry," her mother, Shuaieh, says, "but I still felt [her marriage] was the thing to do." It was Nujood's "auntie"-her father's other wife, a beggar who lives in one room with her five children-who told the girl she might look for justice in court.

 

Kara Walker, 38, makes black-paper silhouettes that at first glance might remind you of the antique portraits hanging in your grandmother's living room. But look closer. You'll see that Walker's art is complicated by race, sex and the history of slavery in the plantation-era South.

From the start, her provocative images have mesmerized audiences and critics. The daughter of painter Larry Walker, she won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" at 28 (one of the youngest-ever recipients); later came a spot on Time magazine's 100 Most Influential list, and shows at top museums, such as New York City's Whitney. This year her art toured the world.

Tyra Banks: The Media Mogul

"Maya Angelou told me I should go into politics," Tyra Banks, 35, says. "I was like, ‘Child, I have one too many swimsuit pictures out there!'" But TV's fiercest female-power icon probably has more pull than most politicians anyway. She draws about 3.8 million viewers for America's Next Top Model, now in its sixth year, and 1.4 million for the Tyra Show, a chat fest that makes headlines with episodes about topics like breast implants, gay teens and weight discrimination (she donned a fat suit for that one). When tabloids criticized her un-skinny figure, she went on air in a swimsuit and told them to "kiss my fat ass."

Body confidence isn't new to Banks. She started modeling on fashion runways, but when her curvy frame threatened her career, she asked her mother's advice. The two went out for pizza and devised a new strategy: working with what Banks had. She soon found commercial success as the first solo African American cover girl on magazines like GQ and Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue.

Today a bona fide TV titan, Banks draws comparisons to the queen of talk. "If Oprah is America's mommy," an MSNBC writer quipped, "Tyra is the cool big sister." In that role, she runs the TZONE Foundation, which raises funds for groups that empower young women and girls. "I can't change society," Banks says. "[Right now] zero is the most attractive size. But I can help women feel good about themselves."

 Jane Goodall: The Environmentalist
Lifetime Achievement Award 

On an afternoon some 48 years ago, Jane Goodall approached a chimpanzee she'd been observing for months in the jungles of eastern Africa. The chimp, whom she'd named David Graybeard thanks to his silvery facial hair, often fled when she drew near. This time was different.

"I picked up a red fruit and held it out to him," says Goodall. The animal looked into her eyes, took the fruit and dropped it. Then he gently squeezed her fingers, a gesture chimpanzees make to reassure one another. No researcher had ever reported winning that kind of trust from a chimp in the wild. "It was a feeling of awe and wonder and joy," says Goodall, still sounding amazed almost five decades later, "a communication across worlds."

Since that encounter, Goodall-the revolutionary primatologist whose discoveries helped force science to redraw the dividing line between humans and animals-has devoted herself to bridging disparate worlds. Now 74, she's still a leading voice for animal rights and conservation, and travels an average of 300 days a year. "If there were some kind of pope for a religion of naturalists, that person would make Jane Goodall its first saint," says Michael Fay, a highly regarded explorer and conservationist.

Goodall's fascination with the natural world was, from the beginning, unquenchable. As a toddler in England, she brought earthworms to bed. Once she could read, she devoured Tarzan books. (That other Jane was "a wretched woman," she says. "I would have been a better mate for Tarzan.")

 

Misty May-Treanor & Kerri Walsh: The Olympians

"We have seen the future. It wears a bikini." That's what one thunderstruck reporter wrote after Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, two California girls, vanquished the Chi-nese beach volleyball team to win Olympic gold in Beijing.

The women met as teenagers, when Walsh asked her idol, May, for an autograph. In 2001 they decided to team up, and since then they have not only reached the top of the sport-they've taken it to a new level. Walsh, 30, and May-Treanor, 31, are the only beach volleyball players to win back-to-back gold medals, in Athens and Beijing, and did so without losing a single set. They also made history by racking up 112 straight wins. Says Marjorie A. Snyder, Ph.D., of the Women's Sports Foundation: "Kerri and Misty are in that echelon of all-time great athletes."

The sports elite are fans too. "[WNBA star] Lisa Leslie said how inspired she was watching us," says Walsh. "And the other day on the beach, I heard someone chanting, ‘U-S-A! U-S-A!' It was [soccer great] Mia Hamm. To have these strong women cheering you on is so cool."

How do they do it? "Kerri and I have the mind-set that we will win," says May-Treanor. Actually being friends helps too: After their victory in Beijing, Walsh says, "we were suddenly doing 10-year-old-girl things-rolling in the sand. The most important thing was to get that hug and hold on to each other-because we did it."

Woman of Your Year: Rachel Lozano

While our board was making its picks for the 2008 Women of the Year winners, you nominated and voted for your personal heroes on glamour.com. The winner of our Woman of Your Year contest: cancer miracle Rachel Lozano, 25, of St. Louis. In 2002 doctors told Lozano that she had a zero percent chance of surviving a recurrence of Askin's tumor, an extremely rare form of cancer she'd been battling through her teens. But Lozano says what kept her going through surgery and chemo was the idea she'd be able to inspire other kids. She explains: "I realized I would become a brand-new statistic, a symbol of hope for every other person who will ever get cancer." Now in remission, she's studying to become an art therapist so she can work with sick children. And she's become such an eloquent speaker about pediatric cancer that the Lance Armstrong Foundation asked her to meet with members of Congress about it. Says Lozano: "I still have many obstacles ahead of me-including the threat of a relapse. But I'm up for the challenge!"

 

Maureen Chiquet: The Fashion Force

David Bowie blares on her iPod, she loves her Starbucks double espresso macchiatos and she usually wears jeans to work. Maureen Chiquet, 45, brings a breath of fresh air- and a hefty dose of American business savvy-to her job as global CEO of Chanel. She's not only helped make the estimated $14.8 billion company "arguably the single most valuable fashion brand," according to Portfolio magazine, she's done it as one of just a handful of women heading huge multinational corporations.

Not bad for a St. Louis native who went from a career at ultracasual Old Navy (as executive vice president, she grew the chain from 35 stores to 850) to the presidency of mall staple Banana Republic. Her Old Navy mentor, Mickey Drexler, recalls her as "a get-it-done partner. She's one of the most intense people I've met."

Since joining the house of interlocking C's in 2003, Chiquet has put runway shows on iPhones; launched ads with a near-nude Keira Knightley; and hired starchitect Zaha Hadid to design a pavilion for a Chanel exhibit on a global tour starting this year. "Clients may say, ‘Chanel would do that?'" Chiquet says. "But I want that response." She cites founder Coco Chanel, the icon who made faux pearls chic and invented the little black dress, as her inspiration. "Her audacity and confidence give me the sense that there are no barriers," she says, "as long as one follows one's hear.

 

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