International Women’s Day – Damayanti Bhattacharya, CEO of Maker Bhavan Foundation

“The international maker motion has lately made inroads into India. While increased training, particularly science and engineering training, is slowly however steadily changing into modernised, some challenges stay the identical. Girls and ladies have historically been underrepresented within the science, know-how, engineering, and math (STEM) subject. While the participation charges are higher right this moment than they had been a decade in the past, the actual fact stays we’d like extra ladies in STEM and broader participation of ladies and gender variety in studying-by-doing and arms-on ‘Maker’ actions. In different phrases, we’d like extra ‘MakeHers’, as Intel has creatively coined. Make in India will stay a pipe dream with out the thousands and thousands of Makers and MakeHers at the forefront of artistic technological innovation. Our work on the Maker Bhavan Foundation is to gas and make this dream a actuality. Change occurs not by our phrases or opinions however by our actions. My work because the Foundation’s CEO is to set a dwelling instance of the change I want to see amongst younger women and girls changemakers of the long run. They will do a fair larger and higher job than something that my technology has achieved.”