Heres the thing about India, we as a nation have the worst reputation when it comes to women, we have one of the worst female foeticide, female child killing rates ever. Throughout rural India, women are not allowed to lift thier veils or get basic education. Traditions like Sati were prevalent even in the recent past. Dowry is expected even today and brides are still sacrificed for Dowries. Even in cities eve-teasing and assaults against women are very prevalent. This is the ugly side of the Indian attitude towards womenOn the other hand, we have had the strongest Prime-Minister of India who was a woman in Indira Gandhi. She remains the only woman to have imposed an emergency in India and arrested the entire opposition overnight. Her assasination has shaped the political landscape of India, the direct consequence being Sonia Gandhi's strength in India today. In India we have powerful women chief ministers and legislators. We have women incharge of the highest ranked educational institues in India. Anuradha Desai, CEO of Venkateshwara Hatcheries is one of the top industralists in India. This is the empowerment side of the Indian attitude towards women
Imagine my surprise then when i researched Captain. Saudamini Deshmukh. She is currently the Deputy General Manager of Indian, what was once Indian Airlines.
Capt. Deshmukh has many firsts to her credit.
She was the first woman in 1985 to become a check-pilot on a Fokker-27.
Then, she went on to captain an all-woman crew on a Boeing 737 from Calcutta to Silchar in 1989.
Then, in 1994, she became Captain on Airbus-A-320, and in 1995, in another first, she captained the airbus with an all-woman crew.
And she's the first woman to occupy the chair of Deputy General Manager (Operations) at Indian.
And she's the first woman to occupy the chair of Deputy General Manager (Operations) at Indian.
wow What a trailblazer!!!
Other firsts for women in India.
1. Kiran Bedi - The lady of steel.. first woman to join the Indian Police Service - 1972
2. Kalpana Chawla - first Indian woman in space. - 1997.
3. Priya Jhingan - first woman officer in the Indian Army - 1992
Image and Text courtesy of The Hindu.
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i liked this bl;og and the one abt barkha dutt. finally indian women who are NOT into entertainment/acting/singing/
modelling etc. how abt something abt narayan murthy's better half?? sudha murthy? and something abt Kiran Mazumdar Shaw???
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Kalpana Chawla 7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003 was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.Kalpana Chawla was born into a Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana, India.
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