Red Horns Division Informs Women about Jobs in the Army on 'Women's Equality Day'

Kokrajhar, August 27, 2019:

A unit of the Red Horns Division conducted a lecture on job opportunities for girls in the Indian Army in the Athiabari High School in Kokrajhar district of Assam on 26 August ,2019.

The lecture was conducted by the Red Horns Division with an aim to educate and spread awareness amongst the youth about the women's equality and the various job opportunities for women in the army.

More than one hundred students and twenty teachers attended the session conducted by the Red Horns Division. Around eighty women from the nearby villages also attended the lecture.

The motivation of students was evident both in terms of strength and zeal. By organising such events, the Army is aiming for overall education of the society and contributing it's bits towards promoting equality among women.

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.

In the 1970s, with the so-called second wave of feminism, August 26 again became an important date.  In 1970, on the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification, the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality, asking women to stop working for a day to highlight inequalities in pay and education, and the need for more child care centers. Women took part in events in 90 cities.  Fifty thousand people marched in New York City, and some women took over the Statue of Liberty.

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