Serving approximately 100 patients, the fair offered a comprehensive range of vital services, including vaccinations, mammograms, dental care, OB-GYN wellness checks and more. Beyond medical care, attendees had the opportunity to build connections with community partners from around the metro, while also enjoying a photo booth and participating in raffles.
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These members of fairer sex were the first time achievers in their respective fields. They all became famous for getting into professions which were considered male bastions. But, they proved no field is the exclusive right of males.These are only exceptions to the general apathy and neglect faced by the womenfolk in this great country of ours.
As a society we believe we've come a long way from the days when presence of women in so called male professions was looked at with awe, surprise and at most times with disgust.Today, general perception is that India provides its daughters equal opportunities as envisaged by the Constitution of India. But this is a mirage we are looking at. The reality is, unfortunately very different from what we perceive. According to a survey only 13% of Indian women are working. And among them 9 out of 10 women work in unorganised sector.
Indian women don't have enough avenues to realise their full potential because of the excessive male chauvinism ingrained in the Indian society.Even if they get a chance to work they are restricted to jobs which are perceived to be better suited to them. They are paid lesser salaries especially in unorganised sector where majority of them are employed. For instance there is a huge difference in the wages paid to a female worker and a male labourer in the field of construction.
In organised sector women face multitude of difficulties in the form of harassment, exploitation, lecherous glances of their male counterparts, lesser pay etc. Though we've accepted women in the workplace but not in our minds as an equally capable individual. The mindsets need to change if we are to give women their due position in the society
There is another aspect to this subject. I believe by joining workforce the women face the dual burden of looking after the family and also earning for them. The work of male members has bot been increased , in fact it has been reduced as the ladies of the home are sharing their responsibility. A male returning home after a long day's work has the luxury of relaxing on the couch with a coffee mug in his hand. The same cannot be said about the women. Once back from the work they have another job waiting for them .The job of managing the family.
As a society we've reluctantly accepted the women in various professions but are unwilling to share their responsibilities at home.The Indian working women is overburdened and doesn't get the credit for the extra efforts she puts in managing the home. Its a naive idea but I believe the work done by the housewives at home should also be counted as an economic activity. They are contributing immensely to the household incomes by saving the costs which otherwise would have been incurred by employing a maid servant.
To conclude I would say that Indian women are overburdened , unappreciated and slog it out for hours with out due credit. Indian working women is highly underpaid and does's get a fair deal in both personal and professional life.
In conjunction with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago Frederick Jackson Turner famously declared that the frontier had closed. Arguments regarding the accuracy of his declaration aside, the seminal change it represented was an outcome of the American project of expansion from a small nation hugging the Atlantic seaboard to a transcontinental entity on the cusp of becoming the greatest world power. From a settler colonial or settler/indigenous perspective this project was achieved by the dispossession of the land's original inhabitants of the bulk of their real estate and resources. This ushered in an abrupt new era of history for American Indians who suddenly found themselves impoverished, with their populations and communities decimated.
As a result of these rapid transformations, American Indians sought new ways to assure their survival. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition offered economic opportunities to Indians, but their participation in the fair also caused a scramble among a variety of actors to take control of the Indian presence. As part of this competition, a variety of interests worked to create an identity for American Indians that would meet their own purposes.
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition brought American Indians and other indigenous peoples to Chicago to be put on display for the twenty seven million visitors who attended the fair. The participation of hundreds of indigenous people at the fair created a space where a battle over who would control their representation to the broader world took place. This battle both shaped and foreshadowed the imagery of Indians that the American public would accept for decades to come. Historians and cultural commentators have paid attention to this, but have thus far failed to give it the complex treatment that it deserves. Multiple actors, including Indians themselves, presented or attempted to present Indians and other indigenous peoples to multiple audiences at the fair. A study of the various efforts in Chicago can provide us with a broad understanding of the stereotypes that increasingly defined American Indians to the United States culture at large well into the twentieth century. Such study can also provide insight into the ways that American Indians tried to counter these inaccuracies that linger into the twenty-first century.
The following questions are valuable to ask students to consider: When studying this time period and these issues, who controlled the definition of American Indians at the end of the nineteenth century? How did American Indians view their place in the rapidly changing world? How did Indians want the United States citizenry and policy makers to view them? To what extent were American Indians successful in defining who they were to these constituencies? What was the extent of Indian agency and how did Indian successes and failures at self-definition impact the roles defined for them in their new world?
In some ways expositions such as this were the events that began to shrink the world by exposing fairgoers to both broadly diverse ideas and inventions and to far-flung peoples. Such exposure to exoticism was open to the masses in this best-attended of all fairs. The exotic ran the gamut from what was considered high civilization to what fairgoers and organizers viewed as primitive. American Indians were categorized among the "primitive." Hundreds of American Indians, and numerous other indigenous peoples, came to Chicago in 1893 to participate in the festivities, both on and off of the fairgrounds.
Most American Indians who came to the fair came to work, although a small number visited as tourists or participated in other ways. Most of the literature describing Indians' participation at the fair focuses on either the ways in which they were presented, or to a lesser extent, the observations they made about the fair, Chicago, and Lake Michigan. The social meanings and implications of their representation and experiences provide valuable insights into the American and the Native American psyche of the late nineteenth century. This has been the subject of much of the study of the Indian presence at the fair.3 Numerous competing perspectives infused the efforts of those who were displaying Indians. For the most part they did not reflect Indian reality in the late nineteenth century. They did, however, help create and cement American cultural stereotypes about Indians that would both impede Indian efforts to succeed in modern America and help define the scholarly literature regarding the fair for a long time to come.
American Indian realities in the late nineteenth century stood in stark contrast to American perceptions of Indians in many ways. As a consequence, representations of American Indians at the fair failed to give accurate perspectives to the American public regarding who Indians really were, and their role in the modern American cultural world. Some Indian people actively spoke out against this, while the actions of others remained misunderstood.
The fair's organizers clearly showed their view of Indians with the printing of the Exposition's admission tickets. They sold tickets with four images on them: an Indian in headdress, an image of Columbus, one of George Washington and one of Abraham Lincoln. These were intended to portray "four epochs in the history of our country," according to one contemporary observer. The latter three represented European discovery of North America, the revolutionary break from England and the end of slavery. The image of the Indian was meant to show "that period when the country was entirely under the dominion of the savage."4 This perspective unabashedly consigned Indians to the distant American and human past.
Scholarly works on the role of Indians at the fair have largely pursued a binary analysis. Following long-standing interpretations of American Indians, they describe the displays as depicting Indians either as primitivistic or, in relation to Indian school displays, progressive. This reflects the scholarly descriptions that largely held until the 1980s or 1990s of individual Indians as either traditional or progressive/educated. In part the literature on representation reflects the failure to account for the myriad and broad experiences of Indians who worked at the fair.
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