The first Ph.d Degree of Women's Studies at the University of Hyderabad

 Today, the 12th December, 2014, was a very important day for me. We had the viva for the first Ph.d degree in Women's Studies. This was a dream come true. Since 1984 we were hoping to have a Centre for Women's. Studies in our University and we had only a Cell.Inspite of various attempts to upgrade it to a Centre we could never do it.Finally in 2008 this Centre was started and now officially we could teach an M.Phil and Ph.d programme. I had three students who had submitted their thesis together and it was just a matter of luck whose reports could come in first and this was of a Chinese student Han who worked on a comparative study of career women in India and China.She became the first student to get a Ph.d in this Centre.

As a Chairperson of the History committee there was another viva today for a History student and we had a lunch together to commemorate this with our students Han from Women' s Studies and Sabita kumar from history along with the two experts Prof Kiran kumari from Tirupati and Prof.Vibha Tirpathi from Benaras Hindu University and Prof.K.P.Rao and Rajesh our History faculty.