{"id":299898,"date":"2019-11-07T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299898"},"modified":"2019-11-07T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:53:27","slug":"chennai-airport-gets-its-first-woman-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-airport-gets-its-first-woman-firefighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai airport gets its first woman firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: In the extremely thin presence of women in the terribly tough job of firefighters in the country, the mother of a two-year-old girl is the latest entrant. Remya Sreekantan had quit her staid job as Assistant Professor at a technology college for women to plunge headlong into a \u201cwork space that remained as a male stronghold for long\u201d, to quote from a media statement from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) which proudly announced the joining of the 28-year-old post-graduate in structural engineering at the Chennai airport as its first woman firefighter.<\/p>\n<p>Remya is only the third woman firefighter of the AAI across the Indian airports. \u201cI feel truly proud to be the first woman firefighter of the airport here. It\u2019s a challenging job, a huge responsibility. We have to put in our very best efforts all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: In the extremely thin presence of women in the terribly tough job of firefighters in the country, the mother of a two-year-old girl is the latest entrant. Remya Sreekantan had quit her staid job as Assistant Professor at a technology college for women to plunge headlong into a \u201cwork space that remained as a male stronghold for long\u201d, to quote from a media statement from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) which proudly announced the joining of the 28-year-old post-graduate in structural engineering at the Chennai airport as its first woman firefighter. Remya is only the third woman firefighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}