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  1. Aug 31, 2020 · She decided to become an e-rickshaw driver after seeing a few women in her neighbourhood. The decision to drive one, and then own it too, was not easy. She faced resistance from her in-laws....

  2. Apr 28, 2024 · In those days, the idea of a woman driving an auto-rickshaw was met with incredulity. Driving was predominantly seen as a male domain, and Dawre faced a barrage of skeptics and naysayers. Undeterred, she donned her regular salwar kameez and fearlessly took to the bustling streets of Pune, challenging the notion that certain jobs were off-limits ...

  3. Sep 10, 2024 · This unpleasant experience triggered a brainwave that made her reinvent herself: What if she became an electrician? “Had there been a woman electrician, I could have called her and not faced all...

  4. Aug 30, 2020 · She decided to become an e-rickshaw driver after seeing a few women in her neighbourhood. The decision to drive one, and then own it too, was not easy. She faced resistance from her in-laws.

  5. Jan 19, 2016 · Carrying the tag of being the first woman auto-rickshaw driver on the Limca Book of World Records, she is now knocking the doors of the Transport Ministry to facilitate her dream endeavour—an academy exclusively meant to train women as auto-rickshaw drivers.

  6. Aug 31, 2023 · If you hail a rickshaw in the Indian city of Bengaluru, your driver might just be a 38-year-old transgender woman named Preethi.

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  8. Apr 8, 2024 · At a time when women were expected to follow a set path of getting married and settling down, Shila Dawre decided to take the driver's seat—quite literally—and became India's first female auto-rickshaw driver.