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She was promoted from ALP-diesel to second motorwoman in 2005. Since then she pilots the local trains through India's first and most congested railway route, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus - Thane section till 2023. [7] She received Nari Shakti Puraskar award, an award which is given in India annually recognizing the achievements of ...
Akbar made it a rule that those women roaming without a veil be made a prostitute. He also directed that they should live within their house and travel under the supervision of a male. The upper-class women were better-off due to private education and entertainment. The purdah system became weaker as the Mughal empire declined. [26]
Feminism as an initiative started independently in Maharashtra by the pioneer of women's rights and education: Savitribai Phule, who started the first school for girls in India (1848); [18] [19] Tarabai Shinde, who wrote India's first feminist text Stri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) in 1882; and Pandita Ramabai, who ...
Nearly 40% of female founders said that improving their work-life balance was the biggest catalyst for starting a business. Here's why women are quitting the workforce to become entrepreneurs.
Stand-Up India was launched by the Government of India on 5 April 2016 to support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. Stand Up India Loan Scheme is a government initiative launched by the Government of India in 2016 to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate bank loans to Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribe (ST) and women entrepreneurs in the country.
The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal [clarification needed] which brings together women from different regions of India, across economies to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations.
Links in the Chain (Hindi: Srinkhala ki Kadiyan) is a collection of essays by Indian writer Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987) on women's inequality in India.The essays were written between 1931 and 1937 for the literary journal Chand, and were later published together as a volume in 1942.
The Committee on the Status of Women in India released a report in 1974, and had a significant influence in the reemergence of activism towards gender equality. The report highlighted the significant differences between men and women in India, including the disparity in the sex ratio, mortality rates, employment, literacy, and wage discrimination.