Read Shannon Watts's 2022 Glamour Women of the Year Speech

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Glamour honored Watts with a . “This mom is certainly proof that woman can and do change the world,” said , who introduced her at the ceremony held in New York on November 1. “And certainly as a mother who has children here in a New York City public school district, where my son does four active shooter drills a year, I am incredibly grateful that Shannon's perseverance and her vision is to ensure that parents can worry a lot less when we send our kids to school, or when we go to a grocery store or we go to a parade or we go to a music festival.

Or when we simply step outside.”When she took the stage in front of fellow honorees like and , Watts delivered a prescient speech about the work that still needs to be done. “As the saying goes, if you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu,” Watts said. “Women hold less than a quarter of the 500,000 elected positions in this country.

Which is why women are on the menu November 8th. Our safety and our rights and our freedoms are on the menu.” Read Shannon Watts's speech in full below: Ten years ago, I made a bet that women could loosen the gun industry’s stranglehold on our politics and take down the wealthiest, most powerful special interest that has ever existed.I believed their money and influence were no match for the pricelessness of a child’s life.