IISER Pune is happy to invite you to celebrate:
International Women's Day 2019
(Flyer)
Date: March 08, 2019
Time: 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Room 101, Lecture Hall Complex
About: This year's theme is #BalanceforBetter. Balance is not solely a women's issue. It is an issue for all to think about. The race is on for the gender-balanced boardroom, a gender-balanced government, gender-balanced media coverage, a gender-balance of employees, more gender-balance in wealth, gender-balanced sports coverage, to name a few. Gender balance is essential for economies and communities to thrive. Collective action and shared responsibility for driving a gender-balanced world is key. International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women - while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender balance. Taking after the 2019 International Women's Day campaign theme, the following events have been organised Aat IISER Pune.
4:00 - 4:45 pm: Talk by Meera Nanda (Professor, History and Philosophy of Science & Religion)
Panelists: Vineeta Bal, Vasundhara Laad, Keerthi Harikrishnan, Aditya Kolhatkar, Shruti Chakravarty
Taking after the 2019 International Women's Day campaign theme, topics in this session will focus on building a gender-balanced world and how this balance is essential for modern day communities and economies to advance.
In the play, Savitribai tells us the story of her life – her birth, marriage, and life with Jyotirao Phule, their work for the upliftment of Dalits and marginalised women, the death of Jyotirao, and her own death from plague in 1897. Savitribai is also regarded as the first woman teacher of India.
