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Professional Women of the Year

The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) has awarded Phyllis Greenberger, MSW, President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) their prestigious Woman of the Year award. Headquartered in Garden City, NY, NAPW is an exclusive network for professional women to interact, exchange ideas, educate, and empower.

 Greenberger has been the President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research since its establishment in 1990.  Her leadership, focus and advocacy on the importance of including women and minorities in clinical trials, and understanding sex differences in health has revolutionized women’s health.  SWHR focuses on all conditions that affect women differently, disproportionately or exclusively leading to more appropriate and better health care for both women and men.

An internationally respected advocate, Greenberger has won numerous awards including being named one of Washingtonian’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Washingtonian Magazine. Additionally, Woman’s Day magazine awarded Greenberger the 2006 “Red Dress Award” in recognition of her work in leading the way in the fight against heart disease in women, and in 2010 named her one of 50 “Women Who Are Changing the World.” Greenberger was also awarded the 2007 Clinical Research Forum Public Service Advocacy Award for her role in bringing the issues of women’s health and sex differences to the forefront of basic and clinical research.

NAPW selects its annual Woman of the Year Awardees through nominations of their peers, colleagues, and associates. They refer women to NAPW based on their individual character, commitment to professional and philanthropic service.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Business Mogul  

 

Everyone loathes Paltrow. Or loves her. She’s so divisive that in one week in May she was People’s World’s Most Beautiful Woman and Star’s most-hated celebrity.  

She’s an Everywoman—a working mom who takes her two kids to school, cooks them dinner, and holds down a day job—who just happens to be in movies that have grossed more than $3.9 billion. And she’s married to the lead singer of Coldplay. She’s 40 and yet boasts that her butt isn’t “so bad for a 22-year-old stripper.” She eats a lot of tofu but smokes one cigarette every Saturday night. It’s difficult to make those contrasts feel authentic. But there are many who buy it: Her new cookbook, It’s All Good, made its debut at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List, and her website, Goop, has more than 150,000 subscribers.  

Goop.com is an online newsletter that turns her exclusive existence into a how-to for readers by sharing vacation destinations, workout tips, and recipes for the best corn vichyssoise.    According to Alexa, a company that provides Web traffic data, the site draws hundreds of thousands of well-educated women, most of whom make more than $60,000 a year. 

Paltrow’s reach is growing rapidly. She’s written three best-selling cookbooks that advocate various forms of gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, vegan, and macrobiotic diets. 

Source: BusinessWeek magazine, June 24, 2013

 

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