“Hey Women”
As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors. -Merle Dandridge
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi said no country can progress if its women are not equal partners in the development process.Even the former president of America Obama said that "incredible" Indian women in the armed forces was one of his "favorite things" in the country after his visit to India.Women are doing great in every field like in corporate, sports, education, NGOs, defence, many women are performing very well in their chosen field outside their home, there are many who is working from home.so this how womens are performing and proving herself that they can do everything which the others can do or more than that. Here are the list of Indian women who paved the way her own.
Chhavi Rajawat
The first women sarpanch of India with MBA degree.Rajawat left her corporate job and city life to help develop rural India. She became the Sarpanch (Head of a Village) of Soda, a village sixty kilometers from Jaipur, Rajasthan. Her grandfather Brig Raghubir Singh had been Sarpanch of the same village 20 years prior to Chhavi's elections. She is very good in meeting with people and she is taking a lead in development of Soda village. After becoming the Sarpanch of the village, she has implemented many projects successfully i.e. rain water harvesting, toilets facilities in most of the houses, etc.
Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi (née Krishnamurthy; born 28 October 1955) is an Indian American Tamil business executive, serving as Board of Director of Amazon, the largest eCommerce business in the world by net revenue. In 2018, Nooyi was named one of the "Best CEOs In The World" by the CEOWORLD magazine. Forbes magazine ranked Nooyi on the 2008 through 2017 lists of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
In 2013, Nooyi was named one of the "25 Greatest Global Living Legends" by NDTV. On 14 December 2013 she was awarded by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mary Kom
Mary Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur. She was only 18 years old when she made her international debut at the first AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship in United States, winning a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. In 2014 Asian Games, she won a gold medal and created history for India. She won the gold in the women’s flyweight (48-52 kg) division which was her first gold medal in the Asian Games.She never let motherhood hinder her passion for boxing. She is a six-time world amateur boxing champion. Need we say more? Mary Kom becomes first female boxer to win 7 gold medals at World Championships.
Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan
Flight officer Gunjan Saxena and Flight Lieutenant Srividya became the first women pilots to fly into combat zone during the Kargil war. They flew their Cheetah helicopters very close to enemy lines and safely removed wounded soldiers from the war zone.
Sumitha Krishnan
Sunitha Krishnan is a social worker, who has always been the one to stand up for and help everyone out in anyway possible. Krishnan was a precocious child, she was a badass from the beginning. Her passion for social work became manifested when, at the age of 8 years, she started teaching dance to mentally challenged children.
By the age of 12, she was running schools in slums for underprivileged children. At the age of 15, while working on a neo-literacy campaign for the Dalit community, Krishnan was gang raped by eight men. They did not like that a woman was interfering with what they claimed as “man’s society.” They beat her so badly that she is partially deaf in one ear. This incident served as the impetus for what she does today.
Instead of breaking down due to the rape, she recovered from the incident. She started an organization called Prajwala, that stands on five pillars: prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration and advocacy. Her organization has saved and recovered over 12,000 survivors of sex trafficking. She sold her all to build this organization up, to educate and provide a place for the women who had nowhere else to go to.
Since she stands up for a controversial topic, she’s been a victim of constant threats and attacks. She’s been hit multiple times, pushed, threatened to be killed. But Sunitha stands firmly on her ground and says that these attacks only make her stronger.
Arunima Sinha
Arunima Sinha (born 20 July 1988) is the first female amputee to scale Mount Everest and Mount Vinson. Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player, boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 12 April 2011, to take an examination to join the CISF. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by robbers wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries, and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life.
Her aim was to climb all the continents' highest peaks and hoist the national flag of India. She has already done six peaks by 2014: Everest in Asia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Kosciuszko in Australia, Aconcagua in Argentina and Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) in Indonesia. She completed her final summit of Mount Vinson in Antarctica on 4 January 2019.
She was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015. She is Awarded Tenzing Norgay Highest Mountaineering Award in India same as Arjun Award. She wrote the book "Born again on the mountain", launched by Prime minister of India Narendra Modi in December 2014.
