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Anusha Siriratne. Anusha Siriratne is a Sri Lankan female aviator and served as one of the prominent pilots in the Sri Lankan Airlines. [1] She is the first Sri Lankan female captain of the national carrier and also led the first all-female crew in the history of Sri Lankan Airlines. [2] Her husband Hemantha Siriratne is also a pilot, and the ...
Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala. Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala ( Sinhala: ජයන්ති කුරු උතුම්පාල, born 3 September 1979) is a Sri Lankan women’s rights activist with 20 years of experience and a rock climber / mountaineer for nearly as long. She has worked at national, regional, and global levels as a technical advisor ...
The women and their husbands did not live together and their relationship had no meaning other than "sexual liaison" and legitimacy for the children. [135] Reclining Nayar Woman (1902) by Raja Ravi Varma shows a Nair lady, [136] [137] identified as the character Indulekha, a main character from a Malayalam novel of the same name. [136]
Kumari Jayawardena ( Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism. She has ...
Udeshika Prabodhani. Kaluwa Dewage Udeshika Prabodhani (born 20 September 1985) is a Sri Lankan cricketer who plays for the national women's cricket team. [1] In October 2018, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. [2] She was the joint-leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka in the ...
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 , and they are allowed to vote in election since 1931 . [ 8 ]
Anula of Anuradhapura (47–42 BCE) Anula was the first known queen regnant in both Sri Lankan history and the Anuradhapura period. She is also believed to be the first female head of state in all of Asia. She was from the House of Vijaya. First known to the public as the queen consort of King Chora Naga, son of King Valagambahu of Anuradhapura ...
Women have served in the Parliament of Sri Lanka since 1931 and have been represented in all successive parliaments to date. The first woman representative was Adeline Molamure, elected to the State Council, daughter of J. H. Meedeniya and wife of Alfred Francis Molamure, both State Councillors. 60 women have served in the legislature of Sri ...