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Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Lalitha was elected as a member of the British Women's Engineering Society in 1965 [8] and served as the Organising Committees' India representative for the Second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientist (ICWES) held in Cambridge in July 1967 and ensured that five women from India were able to attend. [8] [5]
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind gave away the Nari Shakti Puraskar to fifteen women achievers. [35] [36] The award function was held on 9 March 2020. List of the awardees: [37] [38] Padala Bhudevi from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, Bina Devi from Munger, Bihar, Arifa Jan from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Chami Murmu from Rajnagar, Jharkhand,
Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children. [2] [3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family [4] [5] [page needed] As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior. [6]
Individual women for their exceptional achievement [9] [10] India: I Am Woman awards: Karan Gupta Education Foundation and IE Business School: Women overcoming professional and personal challenges [11] [12] [13] India: Nari Shakti Puraskar: President of India: Achievements and contributions of women [14] India: Neerja Bhanot Award: Neerja ...
The Indian Railways also offered her a job. [16] On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences [17] for further treatment, spending four months at the institute. [18] She was provided a prosthetic leg free of cost by a private Delhi-based Indian company. [19]
Rajeshwari Chatterjee was born on 24 January 1922 in Karnataka. She had her primary education in a "special English school" founded by her grandmother, Kamalamma Dasappa, one of the first women graduates from Mysore and who was very active in the field of education, especially for widows and deserted wives. [3]