Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of International Women's Day celebrations in VIT here on Friday, she said, “Only 15 per cent of the workforce at DRDO are women. We are planning to increase it to 50 per cent by 2030.â€
Guardian: Another safety app by Windows is the Guardian app, which also allows users to track their devices remotely. This made-for-India, app is a highly advanced security app that ensures security for Women and security groups simultaneously. It is faster since it combines tracking by both the parties and provides directions on your phone to local agencies such as police, hospitals and more. In addition to this the regular SMS alerts, Guardian will ensure relevant reporting for the app to the maximum extent acting as a Guardian for Women.
Women Safe Circle: This app helps one stay safe and connected with the near and dear ones at the click of a button. This app sends an alert as a SMS or distress text message to the configured contact group, seeking help and indicating the user's location through the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Safetipin: This app is really handy when one's travelling to a new or an unknown locality. Safetipin allows the user to know the safety levels of a place. The app provides the user with a safety score, comments as well as pictures.
Eyewatch police: This app is an easy-to-use version of the mobile phone app that allows citizens to seek help in real time. The app offers smartphone based surveillance designed to help those, especially women, in trouble. Once the app is downloaded and installed on a smart phone, the user in distress can send an SOS to the Police control room by pressing the designated button. The police can also access the video of the user's location using his/her phone camera.
Fightback: This is a great application to ensure woman safety since it works across a large range of devices including even feature phones. It uses GPS, GPRS, SMS, emails and even Facebook to inform one's friends that they need help. It has a panic' button which when pressed gets the portal page to send a Facebook update showing the distressed individual's location on Google Maps. It will also send SOS emergency text messages to the individual's loved ones.
Ride Safe: The app aims to make a user's daily commute safer. It detects deviation from the intended travel route in real-time. Over the past year there has been constant improvement in the algorithm to make commutes reliable and safer. It partnered with Durga India, a social movement empowering women to handle sexual harassment actively, in a non-aggressive way!
Uber: A must-have app for everyone today is a good cab-on-demand app. And such appsare especially relevant for superwomen who need to multi-task and have more time, as hiring a cab saves them the trouble of driving through the city traffic and the hassles of finding parking space in the increasingly shrinking city spaces. The Uber app for Windows also allows cabs to be tracked real time and offers provision for trip details to be mentioned for each ride to track back the purpose of the cab booked.
Pocket Yoga: A good start to the day is imperative. And there's nothing better than a power-packed session of Yoga to keep one active throughout the day. The Pocket Yoga app for Windows gives women superpowers to last the day with the help of a take-wherever-you-go yoga instructor. This app includes 27 different sessions of varying duration and difficulty, a pose dictionary and detailed explanations of the correct posture, alignment and benefits.
OneNote: There's a lot that a woman needs to do and it's not always possible to remember all of it. That's where OneNote comes into play. It allows women to note down their critical tasks for the day easily, add images and voice notes for easy reference; and share these notes across devices.
Spending Tracker: Women have always been stated to overspend. But not superwomen! Amid all other things, superwomen are great at managing finances as well. And why not, there are the right apps and technology to assist them. The Spending Tracker app on Windows is a user friendly Personal Finance App that allows superwomen to keep a track of the money they spend.
Spending Tracker: Women have always been stated to overspend. But not superwomen! Amid all other things, superwomen are great at managing finances as well. And why not, there are the right apps and technology to assist them. The Spending Tracker app on Windows is a user friendly Personal Finance App that allows superwomen to keep a track of the money they spend.
You-Doo: You-Doo is an easy to use proximity based to-do list, task scheduler and reminder application, and the perfect assistant for a woman. It has powerful features such as a live timeline, user-defined GPS locations, calendar view, task history and much more. It allows superwomen to set up GPS locations where they perform their most frequent tasks - home, office, shopping centers, entertainment facilities, etc. They can then define individual tasks that will fire message reminders when they are nearby the defined areas that contain Active Tasks assigned to them.
Here are some of apps on that can help a superwomen charge through their day.