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MAKERS IndiaWomen In Black: What One-And-Half Years Of No Work Means For Female Bouncers In Delhi
35-year-old Mehrunissa is India's first female bouncer with an excessive amount of media attention garnered over the years. Yet, since March 22, 2020 she has gone redundant as have most women in the security industry.
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PTSD, Depression, Fear Grip Haryana ASHA Workers Amid Mounting Work Pressure And Hostility
COVID-19 has only added to the ongoing struggles of ASHAs who work as frontline workers among communities lacking awareness and being more susceptible to rumors. Reports of them being thrashed and chased out of homes where they have to visit for testing and surveying have been guiding headlines across the media.
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What Message Did Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat Derive from Women in Ripped Jeans?
Rawat is not the first – and he certainly won’t be the last – to deliver advice on women’s clothing. As long as we continue to take comments made in the public domain lightly, we’re calling for our own doom, ladies.
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Meet The Gond Girl Who Fought Child Marriage To Become A Teacher
Around the time when Patra was still trying to convince her parents, she attended one of the outreach meetings organised by Oxfam India where they educated people around the social evil of child marriage and the legal repercussions of it.
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Invest In Diversity And Inclusion: Strategies to Unlock Growth For Women In Tech
While the number of women working in the tech sector or owning a business in the tech space is increasing, many prejudices and mindset biases still persist which make it doubly hard for women to excel to join the leadership space.
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“To Be Accepted As A Woman At Work Sites Is A Real Challenge” says Vasudha Singhal of Vedanta Aluminium
After completing her engineering degree in Electronics Instrumentation and Control from Bikaner Government Engineering College, several manufacturing companies refused Vasudha Singhal to even appear for the campus placement exams and interviews citing that most job opportunities were reserved for men.
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“Job Titles Are Still Restricted To Men In Metal Industry”: Jyothi Krishna of Vedanta
While she has spent 14 years in her profession, she still believes that the metal industry is a male bastion because “various titles and job profiles are restricted to men till date and women candidates are rejected without even consideration”.
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Woman’s Work Or Man’s Job: How Aancy Kujur Is Breaking Stereotypes In Security Services
Growing up, Kujur was always interested in the National Cadet Corps and has attended three such camps. She also studied at the Indian Navy Service Training Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala. So, when the opportunity to work as a security officer came her way, she immediately jumped onto it.
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Meet Vandi Verma: The Roboticist Who Drove NASA’s Perseverance to Mars
The Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Verma was responsible for driving the Mars rovers – Curiosity and Perseverance – using software including PLEXIL – an open-source programming language now used in many automation technologies of NASA – that she co-wrote and developed.
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Meet Loco Pilot Kumkum Dongre - She Commanded a Goods Train from Maharashtra to Gujarat
In a society where flying airplanes is far more aspirational than driving a train, Kumkum Suraj Dongre dreamt of riding a train all her childhood. Earlier in January this year, she commanded goods train from Vasai Road in Maharashtra to Vadodara in Gujarat as part of an all-women crew.
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Transwoman Anjali Patil Who Fought In The Bombay HC To Contest From Women’s Category Wins Gram Panchayat Polls
Transwoman Anjali Patil, aka Anjali Guru Sanjana Jaan, has made history by winning the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat elections.
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Indian Army Chief Announces Women To Fly Helicopters in Army Aviation Corps
So far, women have only served on ground duties, including Air Traffic Control in the AAC.
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Kerala Budget Announces Press Club With Accommodation Facility For Women Journalists
Finance Minister of Kerala, Thomas Issac, announced that a press club for women journalists will be set up in the state, as part of the budget for the financial year 2021-22.
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In a First, All-Women Crew Runs Goods Train From Mumbai To Gujarat For Western Railway
"An all-female crew set a glaring example that no job is beyond the capacity of women to perform as well as to excel," Western Railway said in a press release.
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Women Farmers’ Day To Be Celebrated on January 18, Intensifying Farmer Agitation
Reportedly, the Bhartiya Kisaan Union leaders in Uttar Pradesh are also planning a protest march – to be led by women from villages - to the Raj Bhawan in UP.
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“Proud Yet Humbled” - Air India’s All-Women Cockpit Crew After Flying Over World’s Longest Air Route
This is the first time that such a long distance - of roughly 14,000 km- has been covered by only-women pilots from India.