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Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer and Christian missionary. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta . [ 2 ]
Gender inequality has been improving a lot in Bangladesh, inequalities in areas such as education and employment remain ongoing problems so women have little political freedom. In 2015, Bangladesh was ranked 139 out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index [1] and 47 out 144 countries surveyed on the Gender Inequality Index in 2017.
Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai Uma Chakravarti (born 20 August 1941) is an Indian historian and filmmaker . Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti wrote extensively on Indian history highlighting issues relating to gender , caste , and class , publishing seven books over the course of her career.
Still, women in Bangladesh continue to struggle to achieve equal status to men due to societal norms that enforce restrictive gender roles as well as poor implementation of laws that were set to protect women. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in promoting the rights of women.
Women activists in Bangladesh organized to claim their rights during the British and Pakistan period of Bangladesh. They mobilized to fight regarding issues including violence against women , economic opportunities for women, equal representation in politics for women, reproductive rights, reforming family law, and gender equality in public ...
Heavily influenced by Pandita Ramabai, Dorothy named her daughter Manorama after Pandita Ramabai's second daughter, who was named Mano. [3] Her father Paul successfully mobilised economically disadvantaged people in neighbouring villages to fight for their rights to land that they'd been living on for generations.
She worked extensively on the 19th-century Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi. [1] She has also translated and edited the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi. Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness. [2]
Pandita Ramabai was influenced by Ganguly and his work for female emancipation when she visited Bengal. Rambai decided to do similar work in Bombay and began in 1882 with Dwarkanath's support and guidance by forming Arya Mahila Samiti in Pune with Ramabai Ranade , Tanubai Tarkhud and Dharubai Limaye.