Women's Day is not a day to recognize Women around us.
Yes. Its not the only day.
In fact its a day to remind ourselves that we need to respect, celebrate and recognize womanhood all the time.
Hillary Clinton launched recently her campaign to be the first Women President of US.
Indira Nooyi, is going to be the first Chairwoman of PEPSICO in another few weeks.
Here is an interesting compilation of FIRSTs by Women in INDIA.
List of pioneers among Indian women in various fields: (courtesy TOI today)
GRADUATES: Kadambini Ganguly, Chandramukhi Basu (1883)
LAWYER: Cornelia Sorabjee (1924)
PHYSICIAN: Kadambini Ganguly (1886)
OSCAR WINNER: Bhanu Athaiya (1982)
TO SWIM ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL: Miss Arati Saha (1959)
PRESIDENT OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: Annie Besant (1917)
UNION CABINET MINISTER: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (1947)
CHIEF MINISTER: Sucheta Kripalani (1963)
GOVERNOR: Sarojini Naidu (1947)
SPEAKER OF STATE ASSEMBLY: Shanno Devi (1966)
ASIAD GOLD MEDALIST: Kamaljit Sandhu (1970)
OLYMPIC MEDALIST: Karnam Malleswari (2000)
IPS OFFICER: Kiran Bedi (Haryana) (1972)
WOMEN'S COLLEGE: Bethune College, Kolkata (1879)
TO CLIMB MT. EVEREST: Bachendri Pal (1984)
LIEUTENANT GENERAL: Punita Arora (2004)
AIR MARSHAL: Padmavathy Bandopadhyay (2004)
ARMY MEDAL WINNER: Bimla Devi (1990)
COMMERCIAL PILOT: Prem Mathur (1951)
AIRLINE PILOT: Durga Banerjee (1966)
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT: M Fatima Beevi (1989)
CIVIL PILOT: Beant Kaur
PRESIDENT OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)
CHIEF JUSTICE OF A HIGH COURT: Leila Seth (1991)
Actually the list goes ON... There are many more who are not recognized/noticed yet.
Lets take a moment to applaude them and many more who will be joining this list soon.
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5 comments:
This article is too good and informative.
thanks .
Regards,
Ananthi
This article is too good and informative.
thanks .
Regards,
Ananthi
Thanks Senthil. That was really sweet of you.
Regards
Shilpa M. Dhakappa
dude idea of the post is gud. it would be adorned if u could include M.S.S the great8( music ), Ishwaraya rai ( in the modelling field only ),
to an extend sania mirza( even though she is not consisent she is famous now ) , Lata Maheskara to an extend ( in compare ot MSS and i donnna i might biased with Lata gi )
and few other women CEO ( google might help )
and remove some less weight entries like Fatima beevi .. other than the post i didn;t see any achivenment in her tensure rather than stand behind M.karudhin or Jeyalitha..
:) good post
Good for people to know.
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