Electric. That’s how Glamour staff members past and present describe our annual Women of the Year awards, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
When the event started in 1990, then editor in chief Ruth Whitney envisioned WOTY—as we lovingly call it—as a network of high-achieving women coming together to inspire others to reach their goals, and that spirit has remained in the decades following.Some examples of this electricity: In 1992, when Anita Hill was given a special tribute in a year that also honored Women of the Year Hillary Rodham Clinton, Katie Couric, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
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