Women all across the globe are rising to the top in various fields. However, there are a few professions that might still face gender bias. One of them being the electricity workers who climb up electric poles to fix snapped wires. Somehow a few individuals might assume it’s a job meant for men. However, a woman in Maharashtra is shattering glass ceilings by being an exception in this male-dominated profession.
Facing adverse circumstances in life, a woman from Maharashtra’s Beed has overcome several odds in life to keep her job intact and help in the sustenance of her family. AIR Mumbai correspondent reports that Usha Jagdale from Ashti taluka in Beed district works as a linewoman for the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited. Born in a farmers’ family, Usha had skills of an athlete.
She participated in the game of kho-kho during her school days and won 11 Gold medals and also crowned as the captain of the Maharashtra’s state level kho-kho team. However, facing difficult situation at home, she could not pursue career in sports. After her marriage too, she worked with her husband to help him in their family’s milk business. Fortune turned in her favour in the year 2013, when she got a job of a technician in MSEDCL through sports quota. After joining the place of posting at a sub-division in Beed, Ms. Jagdale was entrusted with office work, which would best suit a woman on any given day, but she chose not to sit in the office and go out on the field to face the real task of providing uninterrupted power supply to the people.
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