Women’s Studies Centre was established in2011 with the great efforts of the Founder Director of the Centre Prof. Neeta Bora Sharma and under the Vice Chancellorship of Professor V.P.S. Arora. The Centre has fulfilled the UGC Phase 1 criteria set for women studies centre in 2016, and has since taken many significant steps towards achieving awareness and sensitization of Gender issues in the D.S.B. Campus and in surrounding communities. One of the significant achievements of the centre is the successful approval for MA in Women Studies by the board of Studies, and the centre is looking forward to commence the Masters programme from session 2024-2025.
| S. No | INTERNAL ADVISORY | EXTERNAL ADVISORY |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prof. Vijay Rani Dhondiyal | Prof. M. P. Dubey, Former Vice-Chancellor |
| 2 | Prof. Indu Pathak | Prof. Archana Sharma, CCS University, Meerut |
| 3 | Prof. Savitri Kaira Jantwal | Prof. Neelima Singh, Allahabad |
| 4 | Prof. Divya U. Joshi | Prof. Vineeta Pathak, Gorakhpur |
| 5 | Prof. Kalpana Agrahari | Prof. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar |
| 6 | Prof. Madhurendra Kumar, Allahabad | |
| 7 | Prof. Chandrakala Padia, Former Vice-Chancellor, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Rajasthan | |
| 8 | Prof. Satpal Singh Bisht, Vice-Chancellor, SSJ University, Almora | |
| 9 | Prof. Anurag Gangal, Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 10 | Prof. Sanjay Gupta, Lucknow | |
| 11 | Prof. A. K. Dubey, Lucknow | |
| 12 | Prof. Rajesh Bahuguna, Dehradun | |
| 13 | Prof. M. M. Semwal, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar | |
| 14 | Prof. Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Lucknow | |
| 15 | Prof. Poonam Rawat, Dehradun |
| S. No. | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Prof. Chandrakala Rawat | |
| 2. | Prof. Nirmala Dhaila Bora | |
| 3. | Prof. Jyoti Joshi | |
| 4. | Prof. Lalit Tiwari | |
| 5. | Dr. Sushma Tamta | |
| 6. | Dr. Ritesh Shah | |
| 7. | Dr. Mahendra Rana | |
| 8. | Dr. Lajja Bhatt | |
| 9. | Dr. Neelu Lodhiyal | |
| 10. | Dr. Sashi Pandey | |
| 11. | Dr. Hardesh Kumar | |
| 12. | Dr. Bhumika Prasad | |
| 13 | Dr. Ruchi Mittal | |
| 14 | Mr. Pankaj Singh | |
| 15 | Mr. Satyendra Tiwari | |
| 16 | Mr. Avinash Jatav | |
| 17 | Mr. Dhiraj Gurung | |
| 18 | Ms. Kriti Tiwari | |
| 19 | Ms. Khushboo Arya |
The Women’s Studies Centre celebrated Women Awareness Week on the occasion of International Women’s Day from 3rd March to 8th March 2023. The week commenced with a Quiz Competition held on 3rd March and Essay Competition on 7th March in the D.S.B. Campus premises. The themes quiz were women ragging, gender equality, women rights, significance of women’s day etc. Another event essay competition on topic “innovation and technology for women empowerment”. Prize distribution held on 3rd April 2023.
The Women’s Studies Centre from 2nd of March to 11th of March 2024,conducted a weeklong event which included Essay Competition, Aipan Competition, use of Waste Materials and a lecture on the topic “Bharat ke Punarutthan mein Mahilaon ke Bhumika”. At first, an Essay Competition was held on 2nd of March, followed by Aipan Competition on 4th of March, use of Waste Material on 6th March, and a lecture was delivered n 11th of March by Mr. Sujeet Kuntal.
Women Studies Centre honored these women in 2024 for their endeavours in women empowerment
Women Studies Centre conducted Gender Sensitisation Workshop on 12/03/2023. In this workshop, students of various schools participated and an interactive session between the students and faculties held on Gender Sensitivity in behaviours of the students. Focus of this workshop was to inculcate behavioural changes in students. The centre took the initiative to organize workshop creating awareness about gender issues and working towards and creating an enabling environment of gender justice and where men and women can work together with a sense of personal security and dignity.
Workshop highlighted on the difference between biological sex and gender identity, and how gender identity is affected by regressive social ideologies. Efforts in direction of unmasking the patriarchal mores that operates unnoticeably in daily life. Boys were special focus of this workshop where they learnt how to behave to with other gender at their school, family and in their vicinity. It was a very successful workshop where students participated very enthusiastically, learnt curiously about sensitive issues related to women.
The Women Studies Centre conducted Gender Sensitization Workshop on 23/04/2024. In this workshop Women Self- Help Group and advocates participated. They shared their grass-root experience and learning with people participated in workshop. Self-Help Group members brought new perspective of gender sensitization in economic field and what kind of values should be norm in our society. Violence, sexual harassment and unequal treatment etc. are social problems which can only be solved by sensitive people of society who practice gender justice on daily basis and become example for other people. Advocates of workshop educated every one of legal solutions related to domestic violence, sexual harassment, constitutional rights of women, dowry practice and did councelling to aware everyone about laws of the land. Workshop was fruitful and it was leant that gender justice can only be achieved when social and legal solutions go hand in hand.
