Some Incredible Memon Women

Incredible Memon Women.......Hajra Ahmed Parekh

As a young girl, her father Ali Bhai Javeri took her with him in the mid-twenties to London where she had her primary and secondary education. She had to leave her studies because of the conservative members of the family in India considered her secondary eduaction more than enough. After her marriage with Ahmad Moosa Parekh, the couple settled in Rajkot when Mr. Parekh started a modern department store, Mr. Parekh was wellconnected with most ruling states and British Official stationed in Rajkot. Hajrabai mixed with ladies from the elite class and started a purdah school for Muslim girls and adult females.




After migrating to Pakistan, she joined APWA and was also close to Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah. Later, with the support of Begum Khan Abdul Qayoom Khan she, along with leading women social workers like Begum A. Hafiz, Mrs. Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola and others, collected funds to construct about 100 quarters to be given away to poor refugess free of cost. This colony is known as Hajrabad.

She is founder member of the Memon Women Association and Gujrati Women Association.






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Incredible Memon Women.....Professor Amina Memon

Professor Amina Memon PhD, C.Psychol, FBPsS  is a name pretty much known in the field of Cognitive psychology.Prof Memon’s main expertise is in Applied Social and Cognitive psychology.  She has been conducting research in the Psychology and Law area for 25 years with collaborations in Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, North America, Germany and Sweden. She has received numerous awards to support her research and has over 80 publications. Her research has received media coverage and her expert opinion has been sought in civil and criminal cases in Scotland and England.  She has been contributing to professional development and training since 1995.

Research interests: Current projects including work on eyewitness memory, detection of deception and credibility assessment, vulnerable witnesses and video parades, and the Cognitive Interview.

Dr Memon has published widely on topics such as investigative interviewing of child witnesses, police interviews, face recognition, eyewitness identification, the performance of child and older adult witnesses, false memories and jury decision-making. Dr Memon works closely with professionals involved in the interviewing of witnesses and has contributed to training programmes all over the world. She also provides expert assessments of the quality of witness evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.

100th International Women Day

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men.

The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of 20th century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies.