On the ocassion of the 20th anniversary of the Women of the Year award, US women's magazine GLAMOUR will honour the women presidents and prime ministers of five countries, including Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, Glamour's magazine editor in chief said on Tuesday.
The 20th Annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards honor extraordinary and inspirational women from a variety of fields, including entertainment, business, sports, music, science/medicine, education and politics.
The awards will take place on November 8 in New York City
PM Kosor is among 18 female heads of state or government awarded this title in 2010.
The 18 female heads of state or government are honoured for having remained "focused on the issues of women's empowerment".
Apart from Kosor, the other award-recipients are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurqardottir, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, Finnish President and Prime Minister Tarja Halonen and Mari Johanna Kiviniemi, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Bosnian Federation President Borjana Kristo and some other female office-holders.
Glamour quoted Prime Minister Kosor as saying that "the media continued to ask 'feminine' instead of 'political' questions."
"When I became prime minister, the question that I had to answer most often was 'Are you afraid?' " Kosor said and Glamour's comment is "Hardly -- Kosor has fearlessly battled government corruption, domestic violence and even gender stereotyping in school."
