Savitribai Phule among Google Assistant’s 12 global woman shakti icons

Hey Google, show me about an inspiring female.” And Google will inform you of India’s feminist icon Savitribai Phule. An enduring symbol of empowerment of women and oppressed peoples such as Dalits, Phule is one of 12 inspiring women featured on Google Associate, celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.

Savitribai Phule was the first ever to create an Indian girls’ university, in Pune in 1848, along with her spouse Jyotirao Phule, and worked to end gender and caste-based discrimination.

She and her hubby played an enormous role in the community reform of Maharashtra and the education of underprivileged people throughout a period when Brahmins forbade lower castes, specifically Dalits, from being educated.

The couple faced an enormous backlash from the Brahmins. Savitribai was routinely pleted with stones and dung by higher caste people opposed to her educating people of the low caste. Even so, they soldiered on, and by 1851 possessed three girls’ institutions with a total of 150 pupils enrolled.  In every, they ran 18 schools within their lifetimes.

Other feminist icons that Google Associate is definitely featuring this month include Dolores Huerta (an American labor legal rights activist), Savitribai Phule (often called the mother of Indian feminism), Rachel Carson (an American marine biologist, conservationist and author) and Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya (an activist empowering women to gain access to education in Kenya), the Google blog page said.

To know more about inspiring, activate Google Associate with these commands: “Hey Google, Happy International Women’s Working day”, “Hey Google, show me about an inspiring girl”, “Hey Google, show me quotes from inspiring females” or “Hey Google, take up a podcast about inspirational women”.