Gender Champion Club is an initiative taken by Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College to create positive social norms that value girls and women and their rights to improve their well being and achieve long-term and sustainable social change to foster equal treatment for engagement of gender champions in all educational institutions.
Objectives
- To prepare responsible leaders who will facilitate an enabling environment within the college
- To advocate gender equality
- To monitor progress towards gender justice
- To provide an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understand the social and cultural constructions of gender that shapes the experiences of women and men in society
- To make girls gender sensitive and create positive social norms that value the girls and their rights
Gender Champion Club at SRC
Gender champion club was started in the campus in 2017. It has enrolled 100 volunteers belonging to the first year undergraduate course. The Nodal officers plan the activities pertaining to the gender issues and welfare measures offered to these volunteers.
Programme Officers
Ms.S.Vijaya Rani, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Dr.A.Dhanalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Tamil
Ms.R. Vanmathi, Assistant Professor, Department of English
| Event / Topic | Resource Person | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Inaugural Function | Dr.K.Veni Devi, Dean of Arts, and Head of the Department of History (Retd.). | 23.08.2017 |
| “Women Empowerment” | Ms. Alli Rani , President of Yuga, Social activist, an alumna of S. R College | 20.12.2017 |
| Human Rights Day/ “Position of women through the ages” and “Women’s Rights”. | Dr.V.Seethalakshmi, Associate Professor, Department of History, Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College and Mr.S.Viswanathan, Retired Professor in History, H H The Raja’s College, Pudukkottai and Joint Secretary, Indian Red Cross Society, Pudukkottai District | 26.12.2017 |
| Rally / Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the National Commission for Women | District Collectorate, Tiruchirappalli | 20.01.2018 |
| Valedictory function | Mrs. Vadhana, B.T.H.D., Cosmetologist (C&G UK), Tiruchirappalli | 14.02.2018 |
