Women Empowerment

Widowed at 23, Nirmal Chandel from Himachal Pradesh was shunned and insulted till she decided to take matters into her own hands to start Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan, which works for the upliftment of widows, single and abandoned women by bringing in policy changes.

Among the people who helped build New Shephard, Blue Origin's unmanned suborbital rocket, is a young engineer from Maharashtra's Kalyan: Sanjal Gavande.

A single mother who worked as a sweeper to feed her two toddlers, Asha Kandara defied the odds to crack RAS and become a deputy collector at Jodhpur Nagar Nigam

Quitting her job in Bengaluru, Pratibha Krishnaiah from Bengaluru moved to Uttarakhand and transformed the face of a remote mountain village through her NGO, Himalayan Blooms

Stella, Uma, Silvarani, Rajkumari, Geetha and Saroja from Poompuhar village in Tamil Nadu took a step for rural women empowerment through 'Dolphin'

With the high profits margins from homemade murabba, woman entrepreneur Bhagwati Yadav from Panna in Madhya Pradesh paid off her loan, married three of her daughters and enrolled two of them in school.

Medhavi Keerti, Range Forest Officer posted in Uttarakhand’s Badrigaad Range launched Dhatree, an initiative to train women in making and selling organic soaps, cutlery, rhododendron juice, and other such products. They now earn up to Rs 1 lakh

Lata Kachhawaha, who arrived in Barmer district in Rajasthan in 1985, works with Sure NGO to empower women of the Meghwal community to earn a living through Kashidakari, a traditional form of embroidery.

Delhi-based Kalpana Vishwanath launched Safetipin, a crowdsourcing app where a user can login and submit key information regarding streets, and how safe they are to use. The app has also reached cities such as Bogota, Hanoi, Manila, Bengaluru, Dhaka, Nairobi, and many other urban spaces.

Till Dr Mangala Narlikar from Pune became a mother of three, she was known as the wife of celebrated scientist Jayant Narlikar. Very few knew she was a Math wizard waiting to explode. #WomenInSTEM