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| Women workshop at MIER concludes | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 30: The 5-day UGC sponsored workshop on capacity building of women managers in higher education organized by Shanti Gupta Centre for Women’s Studies, MIER College of Education, Jammu concluded with the sensitization and empowerment of 32 participants drawn from universities and colleges of the state. The workshop had the distinction of being the first to be convened with the UGC assistance during the XIth Plan period.
Dr. Pam Rajput who represented UGC as the Member National Consultative Committee was the Core Group Resource Person of the workshop. Dr. Poonam Dhawan, Director Centre for Women Studies, University of Jammu was the Regional Coordinator (NWR) and Dr. Renu Gupta, Director, MIER was the local Coordinator.
During the workshop, fifteen technical sessions on different themes were taken up by experts in which five manuals developed by noted women scholars in India were transacted using participatory approach by experts from UGC and other master trainers.
The manual on Women studies perspectives was transacted by Dr. Poonam Dhawan wherein she talked to the participants about issues under the ambit of women studies perspectives. Women studies deal with the study of the roots and structures of inequalities, reasons for such inequalities in the society and remedies thereof.
On the last day of the workshop the manual on Women and Research was transacted by. Sandhya Bhardwaj, Department of English, Govt. M.A.M College, here in which she focused on building the research capabilities of the participants as researchers i.e. managing research in their careers and in their institutions thereby moving on to managerial positions in higher education by improving their research skills.
In the valedictory session Dr. Poonam Dhawan, Regional Coordinator (NWR) and Director CWS, University of Jammu said that women should become visible and come up in their roles as women managers by improving their competence levels and becoming gender sensitive themselves for which they have to create gender friendly environments in their institutions. She also distributed certificates and group photographs to all the participants.
The workshop concluded by lighting the Diyas as a symbol of Women Empowerment by all participants which also synchronized with the festival of lights. |
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