Despite seat reservations and quotas, these numbers have only creeped up little in the last few decades. In most cases, the seats reserved for women are contested by female family members of existing (male) politicians. Only seats where more women are elected without any family ties are seats reserved for SC/ST.
Involvement in Quit India Movement, taking care of Gandhi and Kasturba, to saving the life of Sardar Patel, she was a pivotal figure in our struggle for freedom. But Sushila Nayyar’s story goes even beyond that.
Roya Beheshti Zavareh is currently an Associate Professor at Washington University. She was a two time medalist at International Mathematics Olympiad.
In a time when widows were to shave their heads and were banished from society or burned at the pyre of their husband, one of them decided to study further. This is the story of how a young single mother joined a college for men and made history by becoming one of the first female engineers of India.
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She wanted to become a writer, so she wrote her own story and became the first woman to be awarded a Field Medal in Mathematics. We might know little of her, but every little girl in Iran knows her name.
Chien Shiung Wu, stood against the laws of physics and society alike, and they bowed down to her.
Lack of encouragement from a young age, restrictions on feminity, and outright rejections, women in STEM face these and a lot more. Sometimes however we see a star shine bright despite the challenges.
It is easy for us to forget the contributions of a lot of people because they were overshadowed by a few. A lot of Indian Women have contributed to the fields of Science without their names listed in the books.
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It is a little bit of science, a little bit of social issues, and a little bit of everything else.
