Enrollment of women in engineering has been less than 1% of total till 1960s; it rose to 8.3% by the mid 1990s and in 2000 it has come to 16.2% (Kumar, 2007).
Of the 25-30% women employed by IT sector, less than a tenth are in middle management, while a tiny 5% occupy senior-level positions. (IMRB Intl)

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Why: “Feminist” and not “Women’s”?

There are 2 other reasons also for using this name.

One, there is a hatred/fear for the term feminist in India as in many other countries. People often think that feminist’s are men haters, which is not true. Feminists are people who believe everyone should have equal rights. We identify ourselves as feminist organization, so we use the term. We would not stop using the word because others don’t like it.

Secondly, in short the name is FAT. We love this acronym. As feminists we believe that the stigma around being FAT, and many other perceived “undesirable body images”, is a form of violence that everyone inflicts on themselves as well as others. We believe that being FAT is cool, and we are proud to be FAT.