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Following is a list of Indian women artists were born in India and or have a strong association with India. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Persis Khambatta was born in Bombay to a middle-class Parsi family. [1] [2] Her father left her family when she was two years old. [3]She first gained fame when a set of her pictures casually taken by a well-known Bombay photographer [who?] was used for a successful campaign for a popular soap brand.
The depiction of nudity in Indian art doesn't support the claim that public nudity was acceptable/normal across all castes and regions in India. By contemporary standards, the unclothed female upper body is considered semi-nude or a sign of obscene nudity, however, historically some regions and classes/ castes of modern-day India , have ...
Incredibly enough, 94% of Indian working women were self-employed in 2009, yet it took until 1972 for any sort of informal labour union to form. [9] The former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saw Elaben Bhatt as one of her role models. Hillary visited SEWA first in 1995.
Working Girls is a 1986 American independent drama film, written (with Sandra Kay), produced and directed by Lizzie Borden working with cinematographer Judy Irola. Its plot follows a day in the life of several prostitutes in a Manhattan brothel .
Renana Jhabvala was born in Delhi to the Booker Prize winning novelist and screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and well-known architect Cyrus S. H. Jhabvala. [3] Her grandparents were active in public life during the early to mid part of the twentieth century.
Louise Smith is an American playwright and actress. [1] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Antioch College in 1977.. Smith won an Obie Award in 2003 for her work in Painted Snake in a Painted Chair [2] and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 1987 for Best Female Lead in the film Working Girls.
The Working Women's Forum (WWF) is a women's organisation in southern India. It was founded in 1978 by Jaya Arunachalam in Madras (Chennai). The WWF aims to empower poor women in southern India by providing microcredit , a trade union , health care and training.