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EMPOWERMENT FOR GIRS
Dr. Anandi Ramakrishnan,Director – K.R.Raval’s Kids World,
Ahmedabad
Coverage• Why Girls students evolve to stereo type roles in life• The need for us to step in• How we stepped in with “Empower Girls”• Results from our experiment• Learning from our program
A tigress is born
•Known all over the world•Only Women PM of India•Woman of the Millennium
•Why? Support and Equal opportunity
“Children evolve around expectations of significant
people (parents & teachers)around them”
•They can become what THEY want them to be.
“Results from childrenhave direct baring on
parental beliefs”
-Hess, Holloway, Dickson & Price, -McGillicuddy-De Lisi -Parsons, Adler & Kaczala -Stevenson & Newman
“Negative parental comments haunt talented women
decades after they leave home”
-Reis
Girls can equal boysand reach
full potential….Only….
Only if we…..
“Teachers and parents
underestimateintelligence of girls”
-Myra & David Sadker
All of us are implicated!
“Girls fear being perceived as
Smart” - Bell, Buescher, Olszewski, Highham, Eccles,
Midgley, Adler, Kerrr, Colangelo, Gaeth, Kramer, Reis, Callahan, Goldsmith…..
Why? Peer Pressure & Stereo type
expectations!
We felt we can change, parents, teachers and students and launched
in January, 2014.
• 500 girls from 5th to 10th • 5 questions – Paper and Pen
1. Are you proud to be a girl? 2. Do you want to make your parents proud?3. What do you want to become in future?4. Who is your role model?5. How would you become self reliant?
Simple, yet difficult questions – 10 days
Problems were with teachers! • Teachers wanted to help with all answers!
What happened with answers?• 500 students – 10 groups of 50 each• 2 teachers and 1 student team leader• Each group analyzed 50 answer sheet• Find themes that emerged from answers• Each group to pick up one theme• Develop it into a stage show• Perform it on 8th March, 2013, Woman's Day
Interesting answers to questions!1. Are you proud to be a girl?
> 80% said yes, 20% not clear 2. Do you want to make your parents proud?
> 95% said yes. 5% not clear
• Boys were informed of the plan
Interesting answers to questions!
3. What do you want to become in future?4. Who is your role model?
> Overlapping answers> 37% Kiran Bedi> 32% Sunita Williams> 10% Kalpana Chawla> 07% P.T.Usha> 06% Sania Mirza> 08% Assorted Others
Interesting answers to questions!
6. How would you become self-reliant?> Educate myself as much as possible for
financial security. > Learn martial arts> Be fit and strong, participate in sports
Themes that were chosen by teams and enacted:
• Save the girls in the womb• Proud to be a girl• Fighting the odds• Role Models• No discrimination• Be aware of surroundings, safety first• Educate Girls• Salute a girls life
The Show:• 1000 + audience• Women Judges
The Impact:• Increased awareness – girls can dream and do.• Talents showcased• Post program feedbacks were positive
Girls counseling centre started
Girls Counseling Centre
• Committee headed by Principal• Teachers and students• 24 x 7 telephone line• Committee meets once a month
Girls Counseling Centre – 12 months highlights
• Solved 27 serious cases with domestic problems that affected studies
• Cleared many confusions on academic choices• Confusions / fears of marriage and future• Parents started spending quality time during
lunch/dinner• Close friends were invited home, parents got to know
them in person• Friends from social media were revealed• Communication at home improved
Girls Counseling Centre – Major Learning:
• Inability of working parents to spend time with girls lead to major problems
• Peer pressure creates great stress• Girls experience great stress due to exam fear • Girls undergo health related stress during puberty• Girls undergo stress due to social media• Most stress related problems get resolved if they can
communicate with parents clearly• They need equal opportunity and support• If supported they perform as well as boys and reach
their full potential
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