Why Savitribai Phule Jayanti is celebrated as Women’s Education Day, Women’s Teachers ...
Savitribai Phule Jayanti marks the contributions of the social reformer to women’s education and empowerment. Her efforts set ...
BBC2 年
Lady Killers – The lives and crimes of eight 19th-century women
In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...
Top 50+ Savitribai Phule Quotes for Inspiration and Motivation
Savitribai Phule was born on January 3, 1831, and she played an essential role in transforming society, particularly in the ...
Business Insider India4 年
India tops the world in producing female graduates in STEM but ranks 19th in employing them
According to the United Nations, women constitute merely 14% of the total 280,000 scientists, engineers and technologists in research development institutions in India. Despite the ground-breaking ...
BBC2 年
Viewpoint: How the British reshaped India's caste system
at the beginning of the 19th Century, which is when these "facts" about Indian society were being made up by the British colonial authorities. In a new book, The Truth About Us: The Politics of ...
Savitribai Phule Jayanti: A 'feminist' who became India’s first female teacher
Savitribai and her husband, Jyotirao Phule, established two educational trusts — the Native Female School, Pune, and the ...
BBC4 年
The Indian queens who modelled for the world's first vaccine
an English doctor - and met with suspicion and resistance in India. Not least because it was being championed by the British, whose power was rising at the turn of the 19th Century. But the ...