P.K. Mishra Department of Botany Vinoba Bhave University Hazaribag-825319, Jharkhand, India E mail: malay_mishra@yahoo.com Introduction Women have been custodian of plant genetic diversity from time immemorial. They have adequate knowledge regarding importance of plants as food, medicine, clothing and raw materials for various house-hold purposes. Plants are the backbones of religious events and rituals. Obviously…
Deepika Sharma BSc(Hons) Botany, 2nd Year University Of Delhi Email: deepikajpsharma7@gmail.com “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf Until I started writing this article, I didn’t know that patriarchy was so deeply rooted in our society that it didn’t even spare academics. There are women who faced it closely. These were women who…
Dr KBRS Visarada and HS Gawali Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030, India On the occasion of International women’s day 2015, it is a great honor to recall the services of Dr Pankaja Reddy R. towards Indian dry-land agriculture system. Dr. R. Pankaja Reddy Dr Reddy was born to Shri R Jagannath Reddy and…
Suresh Narayana Pathiki*, Pullaiah Thammineni**, Varalakshmi Dharani*** *Principal (Retired), S. S. B. N. Junior College **Professor of Botany (Retried), S. K. University ***Lecturer (Retired), Government Degree College Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India Archana Sharma Archana Sharma, an Indian Woman Botanist, a renowned Cytogeneticist, Cell biologist and a cytotoxicologist, a founding editor of The Nucleus, an international journal of…
Ritesh Kumar Senior Research Fellow, NICRA (Mango) Project ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region Research Centre, Plandu, Ranchi-834010 Jharkhand, India Historically, women have always lagged behind that of men in education and it is pretty well documented. Science and technology have always been considered ‘masculine’ for a long time. The social norms, societal structure, relationship…
