Vogue India’s Women’s Empowerment Sees Worthy Pledges

The world is becoming a better place to live in for the women, thanks to the numerous causes of women's empowerment undertaken by well-known personalities across the world. In India, women's empowerment is seeing a radical change due to the pledges taken by Vogue India's Key Agents of Change, which include actors, businesswomen and designers.

Vogue India's Key Agents of Change include personalities from Bollywood such as Aamir Khan, AR Rahman, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin and Homi Adajania. The list also includes businesswomen such as Adhuna Akhtar, founder, b:blunt salons; Priya Paul, Chairperson of Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels; Tanya Dubash, Executive Director and Chief Brand Officer at the Godrej Group.

Designers Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Tarun Tahiliani, Varun Bahl and Ritu Kumar too have pledged their support as Vogue India's Key Agents of Change.

Some of the well-known personalities from the south who have pledged their support for women empowerment as Vogue India's Key Agents of Change are Sudha Murthy, Upasana Kamineni and Sangita Reddy, Aishwarya and Rajshree Pathy.

Sudha Murthy has pledged to address health concerns of underprivileged women by funding cervical cancer vaccinations for them for a five-year period.

Upasana Kamineni and Sangita Reddy, Apollo Hospitals, have pledged free breast examination and pap smear test. Aishwarya and Rajshree Pathy, entrepreneurs and India Design Forum Founders, have pledged to launch vocational training programmes in the rural areas to enable women to develop commercial skills. Their plan is to create 100 new rural women entrepreneurs by December 2015.