Women’s empowerment: Marking 60 years

Ritam Banati

It goes without saying that Indian women have been achievers since the pre-independence era. Take the example of Rani of Jhansi who fought bravely in the first mutiny of 1857 against colonial rule. And women also participated subsequently. For instance Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army had a women’s battalion.
Post-independence, the role of women has evolved with the evolution of the society and a change of thought process. The result being that today it is no big deal if a woman is an engineer, a politician or an Army Major which were all male-dominated professions at one point of time.
Here is a list of 60 women who either broke erstwhile largely male bastions or created a dent in their chosen fields: