Women

Female scholars number just 24% in 127 institutions of national importance though overall there are more females in eight out of

At 81, Vimla Kaul has been a teacher almost all her life. When she retired 20 years ago, she refused to enjoy the life of a retiree and instead,

Muktaben Pankajkumar Dagli is a social worker from Gujarat, India. She works for blind and handicapped people and associated with several organisations. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019.

At 68, Geeta Dharmarajan is a teacher, children’s book writer, editor, social worker and a Padma Shri awardee

The young team of Franziska Hildebrand, Franziska Preuss, Vanessa Hinz and Dahlmeier clocked 1 hour, 11 minutes, 54.6 seconds to beat France by just over 1 minute.