सावित्रीबाई को आधुनिक मराठी काव्य का अग्रदूत माना जाता है।

1853 में सावित्रीबाई और ज्योतिराव ने एक शिक्षा समाज की स्थापना की, जिसने आस-पास के गांवों में सभी वर्गों की लड़कियों व महिलाओं के लिए और अधिक विद्यालय खोले.इससे समाज में रोष उत्पन्न होने लगा. 1853 में सावित्रीबाई और ज्योतिराव ने एक शिक्षा समाज की स्थापना की, जिसने आस-पास के गांवों में सभी वर्गों की लड़कियों व महिलाओं के लिए और अधिक विद्यालय खोले.

1. Contemporary Women Role Model Presented By: Dr Rakhi Sawlani

2. Savitri bai Phule was one of the most important personalities who contributed considerably to reform orthodox brahminian culture in India.

3. Born3 January 1831 Naigaon ,  British India , now in  Satara district Died10 March 1897 (aged 66) Pune ,  Maharashtra ,  British India

4. She got married at 9 years of age, her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Phule was 13. Mahatma got educated then he taught Savitribai. They both are considered as pioneers of women’s education in Maharashtra.

5. Education for All Savitribai with Saguna aau started school in Maharwada on 1st may 1847,initially 6-9 girls came but within year it reached to 40-45. Those were the times when women didn’t step out of their houses. Country’s first school was started at Bhidewada in pune and Savitribai was nominated as India’s first lady head mistress in 1st Jan 1848. School for shudra was started in 1849.

6. Struggles Orthodox Brahmin tortured her in every way but she continued her work . She faced the wrath of traditional minded people. They were thrown out of their house. People use to stone her, threw garbage cow dung, use to curse throughout her way to school. She use to put clean sari while teaching children and put dirty sari while back to home. But nothing could stop the indomitable spirit and by 1851 she was running 3 schools with around 150 girl students. She gave stipends to students to prevent them from dropping out of the school.

7. Social Reforms To build up self esteem & confidence & human rights of women she campaigned against cruel social practices like Sati, Shaving the head of widows, isolation of child widows. To build up self esteem & confidence & human rights of women she campaigned against cruel social practices like Sati, Shaving the head of widows, isolation of child widows. She organised a barber’s strike in mumbai and pune against the prevailing practices of shaving of widow’s heads. when Maharashtra faced a severe famine In 1877, they fed hundreds of people each day.

8. Satya Shodhak Samaj When Phule established the Satya Shodhak Samaj, Savitribai became the head of the women’s section which included ninety female members. Moreover, she worked tirelessly as a school teacher for girls. After his death she was chairperson of Satya Shodhak Samaj and carried his work ahead.

9. Felicitation •British government felicitated the couple for extra ordinary work in education in 1852. Their work changed the lives of hundreds of women. They were among the earliest crusaders for gender equality and truly leveraged the potential of education for women empowerment.

10. Inspiration Savitribai inspired a young student to ask for a library for the school instead of gifts for herself. A poet and writer, she had motivated a young girl, Mukta , to write an essay that became the corner stone of ‘ Dalit literature”. She even conducted the equivalent of parent-teacher meeting to involve the parents so they would understand the importance of education and support their children. Her schools imparted vocational training as well. She started Mahila Seva Mandal in 1852 while worked for raising women’s consciousness about their human rights, dignity of life and other such issues.

11. Served Humanity till DEATH…… Savitribai had done social work during plague epidemic in 1897 . She died while serving the Plague patients on 10th March 1897

12. Poem by Savitri Bai Phule Go, Get Education Be self-reliant, be industrious Work—gather wisdom and riches, All gets lost without knowledge We become animal without wisdom, Sit idle no more, go, get education End misery of the oppressed and forsaken, You´ve got a golden chance to learn So learn and break the chains of caste. Throw away the Brahman’s scriptures fast.