Glamour picks Women of the Year

Caitlyn Jenner, Reese Witherspoon, Misty Copeland and five women touched by the South Carolina church massacre and lauded in the aftermath as the Peacemakers of Charleston are among this year’s honourees as Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year.

Victoria Beckham, billionaire entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and the women’s FIFA soccer Team USA round out the Class of 2015, announced Thursday. They will be honoured at a gala on Nov. 9 at Carnegie Hall.

Witherspoon was selected for the magazine’s December cover, to hit newsstands Nov. 10, while Jenner, Copeland and Holmes will be pictured on fold-out covers.