Special lecture on theme “Ambedkar’s Vision and the Entitlement of Working Women”
Panjab University's Department of History, Dr B.R. Ambedkar Center of Socio-Economic Studies for the Weaker Sections of Society and Department of Laws jointly organised a special lecture on the theme “Ambedkar’s Vision and the Entitlement of Working Women” on April 15, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.
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Apr 15, 2024 06:17
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Chandigarh, April 15, 2024: Panjab University's Department of History, Dr B.R. Ambedkar Center of Socio-Economic Studies for the Weaker Sections of Society and Department of Laws jointly organised a special lecture on the theme “Ambedkar’s Vision and the Entitlement of Working Women” on April 15, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.
The key note speaker, Dr.Dhiraj Kumar Nite, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, began the lecture by highlighting Ambedkar as one the earliest interdisciplinary scholars as well as his ideas of inter-sectionality when it came to issues of women.
Dr.Nite in the first part of his lecture shed light on Ambedkar's ideas as presented in his book Annihilation of Caste, followed by Ambedkar's ideas and contributions to the upliftment and emancipation of women in the public as well as the domestic sphere. The second part of the lecture focused on a case study of women in the mining industry and the issues of low participation of women in the work force and gender based wage gap in the mining sector.
Dr.Nite concluded the lecture by pointing out the struggle of enforcing the ideas and laws shaped by Ambedkar, saying that the way forward for women emancipation is a united struggle overcoming caste and other societal differences based on Ambedkar’s idea of educate, organise and agitate.
