Ruta Kale and Asha SK are two women scientists from Pune, have been chosen for this year’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) awards, which are given out by the Department of Science and Technology every year.

These seven women have made the womankind proud with their achievement last night. They spent years of hard work and creativity to reach where they are today.

Nita Patel hails from a small village in Gujarat and had to struggle day and night to reach where she is today.

Dash has been associated with the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata since 2009 in the capacity of assistant professor.

Indian-American professor, Shruti Puri is a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology and earned her PhD from Stanford University.

“It is acceptable for women to pursue a career in medicine as it is viewed as a caring profession. But, when you move towards the science of medicine, women disappear. “

Women Scientists’ continued slow-paced growth in numbers has held them back in reaching their full potential. This is because of their minority status with only 14 women scientists to 100 men scientists. Women scientists believe that discrimination and a still-strong glass-ceiling have also contributed as factors to the low number of women in the field. […]

On February 11, we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Although only 14% of researchers in India are women, these days more and more women are coming out and opting for Science as their mainstream subject. However, since the days of yore, India has been a proud contributor in Science, the country […]

Young girls with an aptitude for science and technology will get an opportunity to train with some leading women scientists of the country. The ‘Vigyan Jyoti’ initiative of the Department of Science and Technology will select 60 girl students of Class XI, especially from rural Maharashtra, for the programme. Beginning in June, the state has fixed 14 centres […]