Sustainable Development Goal-  5 

Gender Equality 

by - Avishi Sachdeva 

• sustainable development  is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The desired result is a state of society where living conditions and resources are used to continue to meet human needs without undermining the integrity and stability of the natural system. Sustainable development can be defined as development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Sustainable Development consists of 17 goals and the fifth one among them is

  GENDER EQUALITY

WHAT DO WE UNDERSTAND BY GENDER EQUALITY ?

•  Giving equal rights to every person irrespective of their gender , not fixing an image of either men or women regarding their habits , thinking , likes and dislikes etc .

•   Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. 

 Gender inequality is not only an issue for  girls/women its even a major issue for boys/men 

       According to archeological studies gender inequality arose even                  before  8000 years 

     As time went on,  men were gaining more power even in ancient                 painting men  started to be depicted more  than women ,often on the basis of their strength or power

  the contribution of women to gain equal rights as of men took many years and many sacrifices .

 women change the world 

lets begin with some Indian women out of many 

KITTUR  RANI  CHENNAMMA

Kittur Chennamma was born on 14 November 1778, in Kakati, a small village in the present belagavi District  of Karnataka, India. She belonged to the lingayat community and received training in horse riding, sword fighting and archery from a young age. She married at the age of 15 .

At those time child marriages were in trend 

Chennamma's husband died in 1824, leaving her with a son and a state full of volatility. This was followed by her son's death in 1824. Rani Chennamma was left with the state of Kittur and an uphill task to maintain its independence from the British. 

she then adopted Shivalingappa in the year 1824 and made him heir to the throne .

According to the doctrine of lapse the ordered shivalingappas expulsion .

The East India company had made the mind to capture the independent Indian states and so they even attacked kittur .

Rani Chennamma sent a letter to Mountstuart Elphinstone, Lieutenant-Governor of the Bombay Presidency pleading her cause, but the request was turned down, and war broke out .

The british had to face much loss during the war but ultimately Rani Chennamma was caught and imprisoned and she dies in the year 1829 on 21st February .

many kings never dared fighiting wars with British but many Indian queen like Rani chennamma for our independence never hesitated to sacrifice their lives  

rokeya sakhawat hossain

ALSO KNOWN AS BEGUM ROKEYA

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in South Asia.

She advocated for men and women to be treated equally as rational beings, noting that the lack of education for women was responsible for their inferior economic position

Rokeya held education to be the central precondition of women's liberation, establishing the first school aimed primarily at Muslim girls in Kolkata. She is said to have gone from house to house persuading the parents to send their girls to her school in Nisha. Until her death, she ran the school despite facing hostile criticism and social obstacles

she wrote the book SULTANAS DREAM in which she write about her dream in which women are doing those jobs what were said of men and were flying cars  .    she was dreaming women flying cars even before airplanes were found . 

she did her best to educate more and more women in the society to change their thinking and start understanding the dark or I shall write the true side of the social norms of against women .

Nikhat Zareen 

Nikhat Zareen is an Indian amateur boxer. She won gold medal at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships. She won gold medal at the 2011 AIBA Women's Youth & Junior World Boxing Championships held in Antalya. She won bronze medal at the second India Open International Boxing Tournament held in Guwahati.

she was born on 14 june 1996 . 

Zareen was introduced to boxing by her father, Mohammad Jameel Ahmed, and she trained under him for a year. Nikhat was inducted into the Sports Authority of India in Vishakhapatnam to train under Dronacharya awardee, IV Rao in 2009. A year later, she was being declared as the 'golden best boxer' at the Erode Nationals in 2010.

In an interview she said - many people disliked when they saw her interest in boxing as they thought her face might spoil and its a sport  ment for boys .

but now , after she has become the world boxing champion she has proved that women by there hard work and efforts can give more glory to the country than men .

last but not the least of my small collection of women who brought glory to India -

Are men better pilots than women ? 

this just depends on ones capabilities not one ones gender 

Zoya Agarwal

Zoya Agarwal is an Indian commercial pilot who has flown for Air India. In 2021, Agarwal captained an all-woman crew making the inaugural flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru, one of the longest non-stop air routes in the world.






 She became the youngest woman pilot in India to fly a Boeing-777 in 2013. 






 she  garnered attention for her role in saving a passenger's life on a flight bound to New York in 2015. After a passenger complained of breathlessness, she decided to turn back the flight and land at Indira Gandhi International Airport  where the passenger was taken to a nearby hospital. 






As a precautionary measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India initiated Vande Bharat Mission in May 2020 to evacuate around 14,800 Indians from twelve countries on sixty-four Air India flights. she was chosen to co-pilot the first repatriation flight by the airline.






In 2021, Zoya Agarwal captained an all-woman crew making the inaugural flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru, one of the longest non stop air routes in the world.




after the successful record made by the crew she gave many motivational thoughts and lines to other women to full fill their dream and bring glory to their families and our country. 








here , I end up with my first blog and I hope I could share you with some information about those women who made India proud and became inspirations for every women and tried their best to finish inequality against women 







thank you 💗