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Social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule played a transformative relation successful empowering women astatine a clip erstwhile nine was mostly patriarchal and oppressive, writer Kavyashree Maganaonkar has said.
Speaking astatine a peculiar lecture organised arsenic portion of International Women’s Day celebrations astatine Dr. Ambedkar Arts, Commerce and Science College and Postgraduate Centre, tally by the Karnataka People’s Education Society (KPES), successful Kalaburagi connected Friday, she highlighted the humanities travel of women’s emancipation.
“At a clip erstwhile women were subjected to punishment and discrimination, Jyotiba Phule enabled women to go educators. It is due to the fact that of his efforts that Savitribai Phule became India’s archetypal pistillate teacher,” she said.
She besides underlined the contributions of Gautama Buddha, Basavanna and B.R. Ambedkar successful advancing women’s rights.
“From the Buddha to Basavanna and, successful the modern times, Dr. Ambedkar, galore reformers person worked for women’s freedom. Women contiguous person achieved education, employment and self-confidence owed to their efforts,” she added.
Earlier, women’s compartment coordinator Nirmala Shiragapur, successful her introductory remarks, said that Constitutional rights person enabled women to pb lives of equality successful modern India. “Women crossed the state stay indebted to Dr. Ambedkar for these rights,” she added.
KPES wide caput Shantappa Sooran spoke astir practising sex equality astatine the household level, portion assemblage main Siddappa S. Kanta, who presided implicit the programme, elaborated connected pro-women Vachanas.
On the occasion, Mr. Kanta was felicitated for assuming complaint arsenic the caller main of the college.
