Engineer – the word itself implants images of men with geek gadgets. While I tried very hard to find the women engineers from India, I
could recall my own college days when the girls were obviously in fewer ratios
than boys.
Whatever the statistics might say, Presence of women here as well
cannot be ignored.
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Rocket Women - From Venus to Mars
The world famous “India's Mars Orbiter Mission” has
around 500 talented engineers working day and night. While the domination of
men could be seen clearly, the magnificent ladies could not be overlooked.
Below are two of super mom's:
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Nandini Harinath
- Deputy Operations Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission at Bangalore's ISRO
India did it again and big this time when Nandini Harinath
was appointed as the Deputy Operations Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission at
Bangalore's ISRO. This made me smile instantly. She did not have it easy
and her words say it all – “"It is lot easier to raise children. Mars
Orbiter Mission requires huge planning and it has been a huge learning
experience for us. We have to plan for the nominal operations and we have to
prepare for the contingencies. It has been exciting but it has also been
extremely tough."”
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Minal Sampath
- Systems Engineer
Sampath and her team of engineers built three of the
instruments on board the space craft, and has aspirations of directing her own
space center. She says – “I said goodbye
to Saturdays and holidays in the two years before the launch. We were working
up to 18-hour days sometimes”. Minal send out a great message when she
says – “You have to keep dreaming, to keep thinking of what you will achieve.
It is only up to you. Only you yourself can tune your life”.
The list goes on and on, starting from engineers to
scientists to researchers. Women have taken up a clearly visible and active
role in India’s space program. We have proved to the world that yes it’s possible.
The day is not far when stories like this would not be stories anymore and
generations would say “So What!”.
While we are flying high in air and helping other do that, a
fellow blogger went out to find the status of some female IITans out of
curiosity. Check out thecomplete post here – Lokvani.
Her finding made me even proud of myself as a woman. Below were her findings as
on 2 December 2013
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Vinita Gupta (IIT Roorkee
+ M.S. in electrical engineering from University of California Los Angeles) is founder
and chairman of Digital Link Corporation (now Quick Eagle Networks). She is
also known as the first woman of Indian. Here is her Wiki Profile.
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This post is written as a part of April 2015 A to Z
Challenge. My theme for this year is Women
In A to Z Professions. Click at the link to check other
professions women have excelled in and their respective links.
New follower here. I'm stopping by from the "A to Z" challenge, and I look forward to visiting again!
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