The idea is to make women self-reliant and visible.
Educated and self-reliant women are jewels in the crown of Mother India.
Helen and Annie prided themselves on being self-reliant, independent women, making their own way.
I had my self-image as a strong, self-reliant woman, and swoonings didn't fit in with it.
She was the most self-reliant and capable woman he'd ever met.
There was a certain feminine softness about her that was sometimes lacking in the sturdy, self-reliant, primitive women of his own race.
One of these evidently hard-working, self-reliant women says, "We were always family inclined."
Press photographer Nora ten Have is a young, self-reliant woman, who's always believed she's had a happy youth.
Over the course of the show, Lana transitions from the girl next door to a more "self-reliant young woman".
Season two also showed Lana's transition from the "girl next door" to a more "self-reliant young woman".