The nominations for Jezebel’s Woman of the Year are in, and while it was a tough decision, we’ve managed to narrow the field down to eight frontrunners. Read more about them below, then cast your vote!
Hillary Clinton: The Secretary of State was one of the most popular nominees. For an endorsement, you couldn’t do much better than happy_seal’s:
She just gets shit done. She’s been a great face for America in a year of global turmoil, while at the same time supporting women’s rights here at home. And, while this didn’t happen this year, I love the fact that, when she was confirmed as secretary of state, she immediately took steps to extend benefits to same-sex partners – again, without fanfare, without a lot of grand speeches. She just did it.
Mona Eltahawy: Of this journalist and activist who wrote that she was brutal beaten and sexual assaulted by Egyptian police, blondebunny says, “I nominate Mona Eltahawy because she not only endured and reported her physical and sexual abuse while being detained by the Egyptian police, but acknowledged that her public persona and international prominence likely saved her life — privilege that other Egyptians did not have.”
Leymah Gbowee: All this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners got some support from commenters, but we chose Gbowee due to LaChavalina’s endorsement: “As if winning a Nobel Prize and being generally awesome was not enough, she was also very active this year in raising awareness about women and conflict, participating in the Women, War, and Peace series, doing live chats on Twitter, showing up all over the media.”
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