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by Dr Veena Adige (Author)
Rape, sexual violence, domestic problems, male supremacy...all the woes of women are now going to end. The theme going round the world is Fifty-fifty by 2030. Women will have a fifty per cent representation in all fields of life and have a say in all matters. Empowering women is the only answer to ending their woes. Is it possible? A million dollar question...lets find the answer.
Author Biography
Dr Veena Adige is a journalist who worked as Asst. Editor of an English newspaper and later as Associate Editor of a fortnightly English magazine. She currently freelances for several magazines and newspapers. She is the author of four books and six ebooks. She has written hundreds of articles, features, reviews, interviews, stories, news reports and the like.
She holds two Bachelor's degrees in Science and Mass Communications, two post graduate degrees in Public Administration and Linguistics and a Doctorate in Philosophy. Deeply interested in women and children, she volunteers to help an English medium unaided school in a rural area near Mumbai, India, which caters to children of seven villages around. The school which started with eight children has over 500 children, forty percent are girls. She organizes social and extracurricular activities for the children, and participates in the meetings where decisions regarding the school are made. She addressed a session at the United Nations on March 12, 2018 during the CSW62(Commission on the Status of Women) fifteen day session through the Temple of Understanding, went as a delegate of the All India Behram Baugh Society(Zoroashtrian University). Her topic was: Challenges and opportunities faced by rural women and girls. She met hundreds of women from all over the world and attended as many seminars as possible and came up with the idea of writing about what is being done for women empowerment throughout the world. She put it all together to write this book: UN CSW62: EMPOWERING WOMEN.
