This document profiles the accomplishments of several notable women who overcame challenges to achieve success, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Christiane Amanpour, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Saina Nehwal, Amelia Earhart, P. T. Usha, Mary Kom, Malala Yousafzai, Muriel Siebert, Benazir Bhutto. It discusses the struggles they faced against patriarchal attitudes and for causes like human rights, democracy, and education. It concludes by noting criticism of PM Modi's comment about the Bangladesh PM "despite being a woman."

1. Despite Being a woman

2. overview
• We belong to the 21st
Century but our mindsets are prehistoric.
• Patriarchal attitudes rule the roost in India.
• But the encouraging and supportive men are still to be found, albeit a few.
• A look at a few successful women who made it through ‘Despite being a
woman’.

3. Aung San Suu Kyi
• Aung San Suu Kyi has fought audaciously
for human rights and democracy.
• Suu Kyi has refused to accept freedom in
exchange for banishment from her
country.
• She has encouraged for nonviolent
struggle in the belief of Mohandas Gandhi
and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• She is the leader of the National League
for Democracy in Burma, and has been
imprisoned by the country’s military
dictatorship off-and-on since July of 1989.

4. Christiane Amanpour• Christiane Amanpour is currently
working as CNN’s Chief International
Consultant.
• She is most extensively known for
her up-close coverage of the Middle
East, beginning with the Gulf War in
1990.
• She is widely acknowledged as one of
the most persuasive international
correspondents in world, due partly to
her inclination to report from unsafe
circumstances in war-torn areas.

5. Irom Chanu Sharmila• Irom Chanu Sharmila also known as the
"Iron Lady of Manipur“ is civil rights
activist, political activist, and poet from
the Manipur.
• On 2 November 2000, she initiated ‘fast-
unto death’ against AFSPA which is still
ongoing. She has refused to consume
anything and it has been more than 500
weeks.
• She was titled to be on "the world's
longest hunger striker".
• The Government forcefully fed her.

6. Saina Nehwal
• Saina Nehwal is an Indian badminton
player who is at present graded No. 3 in
the world by Badminton World Federation
Women's Singles 2015.
• She is the first Indian to win a medal in
Badminton at the Olympics.
• Besides these, she is the first Indian to
win the World Junior Badminton
Championships and was also the first
Indian to win a Super Series tournament.

7. Amelia Mary Earhart
• Amelia Mary Earhart, first female aviator
to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and
received the U.S. Distinguished Flying
Cross for this record.
• She also wrote best-selling books about
her flying experiences and was
contributed in the development of The
Ninety-Nines, an organization for female
pilots.
• Earhart joined the faculty of Purdue
University aviation department as a
visiting faculty member to advice women
on careers.
• She was also an associate of the National
Woman's Party, and an early supporter of
the Equal Rights Amendment.

8. Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha
• P. T. Usha, is an Indian track and field
athlete from the state of Kerala. P. T.
• In 1976 the Kerala State Government
also started a Sports School for women,
and Usha was chosen to represent her
district.
• She is considered as one of the
paramount athletes from India who is
known as the "queen of Indian track and
field".
• Presently she runs the Usha School of
Athletics at Koyilandy in Kerala.
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9. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom
• Mary Kom is a five-time World Amateur
Boxing champion and the only woman
boxer who earned medals in each one of
the six world championships.
• Designated "Magnificent Mary", she is
the only Indian woman boxer to have
qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics,
challenged in the flyweight (51 kg)
category and won bronze medal.
• She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA
World Women's Ranking Flyweight
category.
• She became the first Indian woman boxer
to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games
in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.

10. Malala Yousafzai
• Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for
female education and the youngest-ever
Nobel Prize laureate.
• She is recognized for human rights support
for education and for women in her native
Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province of northwest Pakistan.
• The place where she fought for women
rights is where the local Taliban had
banned girls from attending school.
• Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into
an international movement.

11. Muriel Siebert
• Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, who is known
as the "First Woman of Finance,"
• She was the first woman to purchase a
seat on the New York Stock Exchange
in December 1967.
• The task was not at all easy for her to
accomplish.

12. Benazir Bhutto
• She was the 11th Prime Minister of
Pakistan and the first woman to head a
Muslim state.
• During her leadership, she ended
military dictatorship in her country and
fought for women rights.
• She was assassinated in a suicide attack
in 2007.
• She also asserted that "Democracy is the
best revenge."

13. ConClusion
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at an event hosted by the University of
Dhaka in Bangladesh, said in Hindi, “I am happy to say that the prime
minister of Bangladesh, despite being a woman, is saying boldly that she
has zero tolerance toward terrorism.”
• The declaration activated a flood of responses on Twitter, criticizing it as
“sexist” and “chauvinistic,” accompanied by the hashtag
#despitebeingawoman.