This is a paper presentation on how women movements can be included in the curriculum of children for bringing gender awareness in childhood itself.The different women iconic figures like sarojini Naidu,Annie Besant,Kamaldevi,Ramabhai etc..are being emphasised alongwoith the different women's organizations and movements to bring awareness in children.

1. INFUSING GENDER AWARENESS
AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
THROUGH
THE INCLUSION OF ENLIGHTENING
EPISODES
FROM THE WOMEN MOVEMENTS IN
INDIA.

3. From ancient times, woman herself has
risen for their betterment and they have
been able to display outstanding capacities
in various fields. Thus one by one, many
Indian women casted stones and created
ripples for the great change in the
emancipation of women's status.

4. AIMS
• To highlight the importance of infusing gender awareness among
children.
• To high spot the episodes from the women movements in India.
• To bring out the major iconic figures of women movements in India.

5. The tussles and struggles confronted by the
Indian icons have to be well remembered
and respected. Following are the individuals
who had made great impact in the upliftment
of women status.

6. ICONIC
FIGURESSarojini Naidu
• Sarojini Naidu was born on Feb 13 in 1879 at Hyderabad, India.
• a political activist, feminist, poet-writer, and the first Indian woman to
be president of the Indian National Congress and to be appointed as
an Indian state governor.
• In 1917 collaborated with Annie Besant she founded the Women’s
India Association.
• In 1918 she pushed for the passing of a resolution
supporting women’s franchise.
• For her impassioned contributions to the cause
for freedom,she was elected as the president of
the Indian National Congress Party in 1925.

7. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
• Born on April 3rd 1903
• An ardent feminist,Kamaladevi also pressed for a uniform civil
code as a means to promote gender justice.
• Worked hard for the prevention of child marriage and
emphasized on the need to consider women’s unpaid household
labour as an economic activity.
• She was a rare woman whose vision gifted India so many of its
iconic cultural institutions.Kamaladevi passed
away on oct 29 , 1988.

8. Rani Lakshmibhai
• Rani Lakshmi Bhai,born in 1857
• Considered by the British as the best and bravest military leader
of rebels.

9. Pandita Ramabhai
• Born on 23rd April ,1858
• social worker, scholar and a champion of women’s’ rights,
freedom and education.
• She founded ‘Arya Mahila Samaj’ to serve the cause of women.
• She pleaded for improvement in the educational syllabus of
Indian women before the English Education Commission
• She opened an institute for the education
of young Hindu widows. This was the
Sharda Sadan .

10. Annie Besant
• Annie Besant was born on1st of October in 1847.
• She was a famous British socialist, rights activist of women,
orator, writer as well as the supporter of the Irish and Indian self-
rule.
• She was an untiring worker for the upliftment of women.
• In recognition of Mrs Besant’s services to
Indian education the Degree of Doctor
of Letters was conferred upon her in 1921.

11. Ramabhai Ranade
• Ramabai Ranade was one of the great social reformers of her
time and staunch supporter of woman’s rights.
• She was born on 25th January, 1863
• Ramabai founded the ‘Seva Sadan Society’ in Poona
• Ramabai took active part in the suffrage movement. She was
ever ready to help the needy and stranded women.

12. OTHER INDVIDUALS:
• Sarladevi Chaudrani
• Medha Patkar
• Begum Hazrat Mahal
• Savitribhai Phule

13. WOMEN MOVEMENTS AND
ORGANIZATIONS

14. SEVA SADAN
• In 1915 the Pune Seva Sadan was registered as a society
under Ramabhai’s guidance
• came up with the idea of finding home for women and
training Indian women to be Nurses.
• In 1924, when Smt. Ranade died, the Pune Seva Sadan was
training more than one thousand women in different
departments.

15. SARADA SADAN
• On 11 March 1889 the Indian activist known as Pandita
Ramabai opened her Sharada Sadan (or Home for Learning) in
Chowpatty, an area of Mumbai.
• She designed this institution to further a cause dear to her
heart: security and an education for Hindu women who were
widowed young.

16. MAHILA SEWA SAMAJ
• Mahila Seva Samaj was established in 1913.
• The founder was Smt. Parvatiamma Chandrashekar Iyer.
• The founding members worked for the upliftment of
destitute women.
• The school was started to give education to girls and women,
which was noteworthy, as there were hardly any institutions
providing education to women at that time.

17. BHARAT STREE MAHAMANDAL
• Bharat Stree Mahamandal was the women's organisation
in India founded by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani in Allahabad in
1910.
• One of the primary goals of the organisation was to
promote female education, which at that time was not well
developed.

18. ALL INDIA WOMEN’S ORGANIZATION
• The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-
governmental organisation based in Delhi.
• It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins"as an
organisation dedicated to upliftment and betterment of
women and children".
• As well as continuing its original mission, the AIWC has since
diversified into various social and economic activities
involving women.

19. SATYASHODAK MANDAL
• On 24 September 1873, Phule, along with his followers,
formed the Satyashodhak Samaj
• To attain equal rights for people from lower castes. Phule is
regarded as an important figure of the social reform
movement in Maharashtra.
• He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women's
education in India. He is most known for his efforts to educate
women and lower caste people.

20. ANTI ARRACK MOVEMENT
• The anti-arrack movement started as a spontaneous
movement in a remote village in Dubagunta in the southern
state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
• It was a women's movement which saw the articulation of the
issue of family violence in a public forum.
• The movement questioned notions about the political apathy
of suffering masses and inability of women to take initiatives
on their own without men's help.

21. WHAT SHOULD BE
DONE?• The significant episodes from the life of the above mentioned
women icons in India should be included in the syllabus
beginning from UP as it is the best time to create awareness.
• The different movements initiated by these great images and
their struggle and hardwork for the realization of their rights
should not be forgotten and should be reminded to the
children.
• And each and every citizen of India who enjoy these rights
fought out by the struggles of many great personalities should
learn this with utmost significance.
• Only then the upcoming generation right from their childhood
will be able to appreciate everyone irrespective of the
differences like gender and accept as human beings.

22. • The increased atrocities and crimes against women can be
limited to a certain extend by properly educating the young
ones about the need to give and take respect.
• Women were always given high status in the society and this
status should be maintained in each and every level and
fields.The inclusion of the chapters from the inspiring lives
and actions that lead to the creation of history ,will ensure
that the students escalate the hardwork of the major people
and will try to keep the status of the Indian society.
• So right from the upper primary level the iconic women
figures in India should be included in their textbooks ,to learn
about their life history and also their contributions to the
upliftment of the Indian women.
• This can be initially done with small chapters in the beginning
levels and then to a wider and deep extent as the level goes
high.

23. • Activities related to connecting the women movements and
the steps now that can be taken for a gender fair society can
also be conducted.
• Children should be involved in debates and discussions on
how the women reformers in India has worked towards
equality in pre independent and post independent period and
also in the modern era.
• This will also help in the analysis of the present society and
the status enjoyed by women of different communities and it
may lead to an inspiration for the young generation for the
removal of the discrimination and inequality.
• High school children should be given more awareness on the
present day issues taking the motivation and drive from these
historical moments.

24. THANK YOU
MUBEENA K
B ED STUDENT
KEYI SAHIB TRAINING COLLEGE