If I can, you too can make a difference
When I joined Ballarat University in Australia for a brewery programme in 1975, I was the only woman in a male-dominated class, but it did not intimidate me, but rather encouraged me to be “better than the rest”! We also find a very strong representation of women in middle management levels across diverse sectors like science and technology, pharma and biotech, banking and financial services, information technology, retail, engineering, consumer goods, etc. There are 16,000 women working at Isro today and a team of eight bright women scientists from this group had enabled India’s recent Mangalyaan — Mars mission. These names indicate that India has had a fair representation of “Women in Science” who have made exemplary contribution to create a strong history for the country. The new breed of women entrepreneurs in the field of science who are fast gaining recognition for their game changing ideas include Anuradha Acharya of Mapmygenome, Meena Ganesh of Portea Medical, Neeti Kailas of Sohum Innovation Lab which has introduced hearing screening for infants; and Kanika Tekriwal of JetSetGo, a unique air-ambulance service.
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