Gloria Steinem and Gloria Allred |
MS.
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN
Gloria Steinem
Awards Go to
Troublemakers and Trailblazers
Story
and Photos By Tim Boxer
 MERICA’S
unheard stories were brought to life as Ms. Foundation for Women
honored unsung heroines at its 13th Annual Gloria Steinem
Awards dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Kristin Davis
of Sex and the City presented an award to Nadia
Marin-Molina, and Lilliam Araujo, of The Workplace
Project based in Hempstead, Long Island.
They have heartbreaking
stories of women who escaped grinding poverty in their home
countries only to find similar poverty as domestic workers in the
U.S. These are the real images of America’s workers.
“We couldn’t exist as a
show without the Ms. Foundation,” Kristin Davis said.
Ms. Foundation, led by
founding president Gloria Steinem and president Marie C.
Wilson, paid tribute to grassroots women leaders who fight to
give voices and faces to the invisible workers plagued by low wages.
Gloria Steinem and husband David Bale |
Lifetime cable president Carole
Black said we should thank all the men who help us “because it
makes us easier to live with.”
Amy Dean
of Working Partnerships USA was recognized for leading a successful
Living Wage Campaign among Silicon Valley temp workers in San Jose,
California.
Presenter Glenn Close
remarked, “I love playing women who are instigators, women who
will not take things sitting down.”
Gloria Allred,
the noted attorney, and Kelli Williams of TV’s The
Practice presented an award to Marcy Whitebook and Peggy
Haack of the Center for the Child Care Workforce of Washington,
DC.
The White House Project
first annual Leadership in Media Award went to Erin Brokovich
for portraying a positive media image of a woman leader. Honorable
mention went to The Contender.
Kelli Williams (from left), Gloria Steinem, Kristin
Davis and Marie C. Wilson |
Ms. Foundation president
Wilson announced that next year they’ll be celebrating the 10th
year of Take Your Daughter to Work.
After such a day, children
were asked to fill out cards. One girl wrote: “I’m the president
of my own life.”
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