CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN FROM TRADITION TO MODERNITY SYNDICATE 1 CHANGING ROLES

QUEENS GODESS CARE AND GIVERS PRINCESS OF FAMILY SELF PROPELLED FORCE ACHIEVERS FOR CHANGE LEADERS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

THE VEDIC AGE THE MEDIEVAL AGE THE MODERN AGE

• EQUAL STATUS WITH MEN • PATRIARCAL SOCIETY • REFORMS BY VIDYASAGAR • ACCESS TO EDUCATION • PURDAH SYSTEM ,DEVDASI AND RAJA RAM MOHAN • HIGHEST LEVEL OF RESPECT SATI, POLYGAMY ROY AND AUTONOMY • ISOLATE WOMEN FROM • WOMEN JOINED INDIAN EDUCATION AND POLITICS FREEDOM STRUGGLE • CONSTITUTION GRANTED POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RIGHT TO WOMEN

CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

CORPORATE SECTOR WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROLES

Grant Thornton - Women in business Report 2019 In India women are

42 % of the new graduates

24%In of entry-level professionals

14 % of senior level mangement WORLD’S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2019 - Forbes

34. 54. 65. 96. Nirmala Roshni Nadar Kiran Renuka Sitharaman Malhotra Mazumdar- Jagtiani Finance Executive Shaw Chairman and minister of Director and Chairperson CEO of India CEO, HCL and MD of Landmark Enterprises Biocon Ltd Group WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROLES ECONOMIC GENDER GAP

ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION AND OPPORTUNITY – 149 RANK OUT OF 153 COUNTRIES

ONLY 25 % OF WOMEN ENGAGE IN LABOUR MARKET COMPARED TO 82% OF MEN

FEMALE ESTIMATED EARNED INCOME IS MERE 20% OF MALE INCOME

WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR 14 % LEADERSHIP ROLES AND 30% OF PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKERS CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

POLITICS WOMEN AS POLITICAL LEADERS

Women’s representation has steadily increased in the Parliament. In the first-ever election, only 5% of the House consisted of women. Now, that has increased to 14.3%.

The national average of women in state assemblies and state councils (upper house of the state legislatures) is 9% and 5%, respectively. female representation in state assemblies was the highest in Bihar, Haryana and Rajasthan at 14%.

A third of seats have been reserved for women since 1993 in local governments. That move led to a current national average of 44% of elected women representatives in panchayats (village councils).

As many as 14 states and union territories have 50% or more elected women representatives in panchayats. Rajasthan and Uttarakhand have 56% representation, the highest in the country. WORLD’SPOLITICAL 100 MOSTROLES POWERFUL DURING FREEDOM WOMEN STRUGGLE2019 - Forbes

Amrit Kaur Vijayalakshmi Pandit Usha Mehta Sarojini Naidu Participated in Dandi first Indian woman to Secret Congress Radio appointed the March hold a cabinet post in during Quit India President of the Member of pre-independent Movement Indian National Constituent Assembly India Congress in 1925 First Health Minister she became the first of India woman President of the first woman to UN General Assembly hold the office of Governor in India. WORLD’SPOLITICAL 100 MOSTROLES POWERFUL DURING FREEDOM WOMEN STRUGGLE2019 - Forbes

Aruna Asaf Ali Lakshmi Sehgal Annie Besant Kamaladevi actively participated in She co-created the All Chattopadhyay the Salt Satyagraha active member of the India Home Rule She founded the All lead the Quit India Indian National Army League, India Women’s Movement and and form a women’s became the President Conference, which withstood bullets being division called the Rani of the Indian National promoted legislative fired at her while of Jhansi Regiment Congress. reforms, raising the flag of the She was one of only Indian National two women in the lead Congress team of the Salt Satyagraha. POLITICAL ROLES POST INDEPENDENCE

First Woman Prime Minister POLITICAL ROLES MODERN INDIA

First Woman President CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

INDIAN CINEMA CINEMA IS THE REFLECTION OF ITS OWN SOCIETY AND THEREFORE TRULY REFLECTS CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY

• Shift of role of heroines as strong female leads from mere love interest of hero. • Cinema is celebrating success of women. Eg : Chak De India, Mission Mangal, Dangal. • Women issues being brought forefront. • Shift from the patriarchal story lines TRADITIONAL ROLES MORDERN ROLES CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

SPORTS WOMEN SPORTS STARS

P T USHA M C MARY COM HIMA DAS P V SINDHU Queen of Indian Magnificient Mary Dhing Express Silver medal in Rio track 6 times world 400 m clocked in Olympics First indian women amateur boxing 50.79 sec in 2018 First Indian to in Olympics champion Asian Games become Padma Vibhushan Badminton World Champion

OLYMPICS

• 2016 Rio de Jenario • 2012 London  54 women among 117 Indian Athletes  won total 6 medals  won 2 medels – P V Sindhu ( Silver)  women won 2 medels – Mary Kom (Bronze) - Sakshi Malik (Bronze) - Saina Nehwal (Bronze)

Maari Chhoriya, Chhoro se kam hai Ke CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT WOMEN INNOVATORS

Dr. Indira Hinduja Paramjit Khurana Tessy Thompson Dr Aditi Pant renowned gynaecologist known for inventing 'All Missile Woman of India Oceanographer Weather Seeds‘ first Indian woman to introduced GIFT Project Director for Agni- visit Antarctica in 1983. (Gamate Intra fallopian developed hybrid strains IV missile in DRDO. Transfer) of mulberry,wheat and She participated in the rice that are drought third and fifth Indian resistant, can withstand expeditions to Antarctica She delivered India's heat first test tube baby. to research about oceanography and geology WOMEN BEHIND MANGALAYAN

Ritu Karidhal Nandini Harinath, Anuradha TK, Moumitta Dutta Deputy Operations Deputy Operations Geosat Program Project Manager, Director, Mars Director, Mars Director at ISRO Mars Orbiter Orbiter Mission Orbiter Mission Satellite Center Mission

"Rocket Woman" of India She has worked on 14 missions over 20 years at ISRO and is launches of the satellites She has expertise in the the Project Manager, Mission GSAT-12 and GSAT-10. development and testing Designer apart from serving as She is the first woman to of the Optical and IR deputy operations director on become a satellite project sensors/instruments/paylo the Mars Orbiter Mission. director at ISRO. ads. CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN

DEFENCE WOMEN IN UNIFORM

In February 2016, President In 1888, the role Pranab Mukherjee of women in the announced that women will Indian Army -3.8% In 1992, the Indian finally be allowed to take up Indian army began Indian Air Force- 13% when the "Indian Army began inducting combat roles in all sections of women officers in non- the Indian armed Indian Navy – 6% Military Nursing medical roles forces, signalling a radical Service" was formed move towards gender parity in one of the world’s most during the British Raj. male-dominated professions. WOMEN IN DEFENCE

Air Marshal Flight Lieutenant Avani Vice Admiral Punita Squadron Leader Padmavathy Chaturvedi Arora Deepika Misra Bandopadhyay

The first fighter pilot of the first woman in India to the first IAF woman pilot to the first woman Air India don the second highest train for the helicopter Marshal of the Indian Air rank i.e. Lieutenant aerobatic team, Sarang Force. the first Indian woman General and the first pilot to take a solo female Surgeon Vice the first to be inducted into She is the second woman flight in a MiG-21 Admiral of Indian Navy the indigenous Advanced in the Indian armed forces Light Helicopter squad. to be promoted to a three-star rank. The first batch of 100 women soldiers in the Army is to be commissioned by March 2021 The women soldiers will be commissioned into the Corps of Military Police of the Indian Army.