One Week Training Program on"Gender Equality in Academic Leadership"

At Integral University, Lucknow (July 6-12, 2017)

Integral University, a regional Centre for

Academic Leadership and Education

Management (CALEM) AMU, Aligarh

successfully completed the One Week

Training Program on "Gender Equality in

Academic Leadership" (July 6-12, 2017).

In the inaugural session, the Director HRDC

Integral University warmly welcomed the participants and said that "in the nineteenth

century, the central moral challenge was

slavery but in the twentieth century, the

paramount moral challenge is the struggle

for gender equality or gender justice around

the world.". Gender sensitization appears to

be a major issue in Indian society; therefore,

the course is to ensure the professional

development of the teachers in order to

broaden their mental horizon and to sensitize them to the mission of quality, education and

nation building through gender justice.

Mrs. Azra Waseem, Director, Techno

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Academic School, Lucknow, the Chief Guest

of the Inaugural Session stated that men and

women need to be sensitized towards gender

issues, the boundaries that exist between

colleagues and how such boundaries are

crossed. Dr. FaizaAbbasi, Assistant Director,

UGC Human Resource Development Centre,

AMU, Aligarh, the Guest of Honor of the Session said to help men and women be aware of

gender biases, to help them resolve interpersonal conflicts arising from gender issues and

enable them to act assertively and respond to challenges in the workplaces equally. Mr.

Mohd. Nasir from the Department of Law,

AMU , Aligarh held the first session on the

topic "Women Empowerment in CSR &

ISR," that is Corporate/ Institutional and

Social Responsibility for Academic

Leadership.He said that at large women are

good for business specially executive-level

and the importance of corporate sustainability lies individual and corporate social

responsibility. In the world order, there is more pressure from various affairs to pursue more

socially responsible behavior of the individuals. Mr. Nasir shared the data that women have

been making big waves in the world of business.

The lectures were held on issues i. e.

women in higher education, women in nature

conservation, women in education, and

perspectives on gender, gender justice, and

governance issues.Dr. FaizaAbbasi spoke on

women in nature conservation and explained the

term'Eco-criticism as the study of the

relationship between literature and the physical

environment. Eco-criticism is the study of literature and the environment from an

interdisciplinary point of view, whereliterature scholars analyze texts that illustrate

environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature.lt

is an intentionally broad approach that is known by a number of other designations, including

green (cultural) studies, ecopoetics, and environmental literary criticism. Earth has seen ages,

civilizations emerging and dying,

bombings and disasters-it still stays and

the same has been the case with women.

Prof. Seem in Hassan, Head, Department

of English, AMU Aligarhinteracted with the

participants on gender justice and talked about

what is gender, gender issues, gender dynamics,

classroom dynamics, teacher and student

behaviors, differences in linguistic styles, effects

on female students, dealing with conflicts and

teaching strategies.Mrs. Tullika Srivastava, Executive Director, South Asia Women's Fund

spoke on women in higher education and legal issues. Dr. Farha Usmani, Chief at United

Nations Population Fund Headquarters, New York had a very interactive session on women

in the world and international leadership. She asked the participant to suggest solutions and

plans for overcoming gender inequality and submit it in writing.

In the valedictory Program, Prof. Mohammad Muzammil, the former Vice

Chancellor, BR Ambedkar University, Agra and former Vice Chancellor, Rohelkhand

University, Bareilly was the Chief Guest. Prof. Muzammil also held a wonderful lecture on

"Governance Issues," and impressively explained the difference between administration,

management and governance. He discussed that

Human Resource Development and Human

Development belong to human means and ends.

He also added that engendering human

development is to make human gender

sensitive- and today is the day to rejoice and a

day to ponder.

Prof. Aqeel Ahmad, Controller of

Examinations, Integral University, the

Guest of Honor, said that "men and women

are two wheels of the same vehicle." He

posed the question that even today why do

men and women both are happier if the

baby boy is born? And-- despite of being a

crime, the pre-birth identification is on rise. Dr. Syed Aqeel Ahmad, Director HRDC

congratulated all the participants and said that "I strongly believe that the subsequent

outcomes of this course on "Gender Equality in Academic Leadership" must have addressed

the problems faced by the intellectuals in the

community. This attempt will certainly prove

to be useful to tackle the problems of Gender

Equality currently prevailing in the

institutions of higher education In the

country," he further added that "the

promotion of gender equality and

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empowering o~ women is one of the eight

Millennium Development Goals (MD G) to

which India is a signatory. The pairing of the

two concepts of women's empowerment and

gender equality are two sides of the same

coin- progress toward gender equality

requires women's empowerment and

women's empowerment requires increases in gender equality, justice and sensitization." He

requested all the participants to utilize the academic leadership abilities maximally and also

create insights in gender justice for the up-liftment and development of the ever growing

human resource of our beloved country. At the end, Dr. Aqeel congratulated the TEAM

CALEM, HRDC, Integral University for their untiring help and support for conducting the

course successfully. Mr. Zishan Raza Khan, the Dy. Director, HRDC Integral University,

presented the vote of thanks.