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Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , and they are allowed to vote in election since 1931 . [ 8 ]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Kumari Jayawardena ( Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism. She has ...
Swasthika Arulingam. Nationality. Sri Lankan. Occupation (s) human rights lawyer, women's rights activist. Swasthika Arulingam is a Sri Lankan human rights lawyer, women's rights activist, human rights activist and political activist. She also serves as a prominent member of the Liberation Movement. [1] [2]
While Sri Lanka relatively excels when it comes to gender equality indices, there are still many underlying issues pertaining to gender inequality in Sri Lanka. [3] Generally speaking, women in Sri Lanka are responsible for cooking, raising children, and taking care of housework. [2] In families relying on agriculture, women are in charge of ...
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it. For those newspapers that are also published online, the website is given.
Somerville College, Oxford. Occupation. engineer. Known for. first female engineer. Premala Sivaprakasapillai née Sivasegaram (born 22 April 1942) is a Sri Lankan engineer. She is the country’s first female engineer and the first female civil engineer. [1] [2] She is also one of the prominent members of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
The Women's Support Group (WSG) was set up in 1999 as an offshoot from Companions on a Journey. The founders had joined CoJ and set up a support group for lesbian, bisexual and transgender women, which then took on its own identity over time. [1] The group organised a national convention for lesbians in 1999 which encountered hostility and the ...