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The Bronze Award for the Large Business Category by the Women's Chamber of Industry & Commerce at the Year 2000 Women Entrepreneurs of the Year Award Ceremony. [ 9 ] KOTRA Plaque of Appreciation -- 2005 for forging strategic foreign economic ties between Korea & Sri Lanka presented by Mr. Young Kyo, president and CEO of the Korea Trade ...
Otara Del Gunawardene was born on 30 August 1964 in Colombo, Sri Lanka the third child to Norman and Delysia Gunewardene. [4] Her father was a former Chairman of Aitken Spence and her mother, Delysia, established the Chitra Lane School for differently-abled children.
Premala Sivaprakasapillai née Sivasegaram (born 22 April 1942) is a Sri Lankan engineer.She is the country’s first female engineer and the first female civil engineer. [1] [2] She is also one of the prominent members of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
Shreen Abdul Saroor (born 1969) is a Sri Lankan peace and women's rights activist. [1] In 1990 as part of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka, she was forcibly removed from her home in Mannar by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and placed in a refugee camp.
In March 2019, she was named as one of the most influential women, and among women change-makers in Sri Lanka, by the Parliament of Sri Lanka coinciding with International Women's Day. [21] [22] [23] In August 2019, she was one of the 66 recipients to receive national honors for 2019 from the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. [24] [25]
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Ruma Devi (born 16 November 1988), is an Indian traditional handicraft fashion designer and social worker from Barmer, Rajasthan. [1] Ruma devi received the “Nari Shakti Puraskar 2018” the highest civilian honour for Women in India. She is associated with a network of over 50,000 rural women, [2] trained them and linked them to the livelihood.