Role of
Women
in
Modern
Society
In
st
21
Century
• Women expanded their roles and positions.
Areas include
Independence
Decision-making
Military Combat
LIST NEVER ENDS
• The modern era has taken the woman out of the home
and into the workplace.
A women is like a
tea bag;
You never know
how strong
it is until it’s in
hot water.
IndIa’s
Pride
Sakshi Malik is an Indian
freestyle wrestler. At the
2016 Summer Olympics,
she won the bronze
medal in the 58 kg
category, becoming the
first Indian female
wrestler to win a medal
at the Olympics.
Dipa Karmakar is an
artistic gymnast who
represented India at the
2016 Summer Olympics.
She is the first Indian
female gymnast ever to
compete in the Olympics,
and the first Indian
gymnast to do so in 52
years.
P.V SINDHU; Pusarla
Venkata Sindhu is an
Indian professional
badminton player. At the
2016 Summer Olympics,
she became the first
Indian woman to win an
Olympic silver medal.
Indian women broke yet another glass ceiling
in an age when practically nothing much
remains beyond their means anymore. This
morning belongs to flight cadets Avani
Chaturvedi from Madhya Pradesh, Bhawana
Kanth from Bihar and Mohana Singh from
Rajasthan, who are currently undergoing
stage-II training on Kiran Intermediate Jet
Trainers at Hakimpet Air Force Station in
Hyderabad.
Saina Nehwal is a
professional
badminton singles
player from India.
Active since 2004 at
the international
circuit, Nehwal, the
former world no. 1,
has maintained her
world ranking in the
top ten since 2009.
Barkha Dutt is an
Indian television
journalist and
columnist, as well as
the group editor with
NDTV, noted for her
brave reportage in the
dangerous conditions
of the Kargil War.
Kiran Bedi is a retired
Indian Police Service
officer, social activist,
former tennis player and
politician who is the
current Lieutenant
Governor of Puducherry.
She is the first woman to
join the Indian Police
Service in 1972.
Chitra Ramkrishna is
the first woman
managing director
and chief executive
officer of the National
Stock Exchange, an
institution founded in
the early 1990s to
reform the capital
market in India.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
(born 23 March 1953,
Bangalore, India) is an
Indian entrepreneur. She
is the chairman and
managing director of
Biocon Limited, a
biotechnology company
based in Bangalore
(Bengaluru), India[4] and
the current chairperson
of IIM-Bangalore.
Nita Ambani (born 1
November 1963) is the
chairperson and founder of
Reliance Foundation and a
non-executive director of
Reliance Industries. She is
married to Reliance
Industries chairman and
managing director Mukesh
Ambani. She is also an art
collector and owner of
Mumbai Indians.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW:
1. Write a picture composition , with respect to the role of women in today’s
society, in not more than 150 words.