10 apps every woman should download

Women safety is a key concern today and various steps have been taken to make India a safer place. To ensure a secure environment for women employees, IT industry body NASSCOM felicitated winners of All India App Fame Contest 2013, which focused on creating solutions for women safety.

l. GoSuraksheit
2. Sentinel
3. Nirbhaya
4. SafeBridge
5. FightBack
6. One Touch SOS
7. inE
8. iFollow
9. SafeTrac
10. PanicGuard

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How to avoid being a victim anywhere anytime

I was born and raised in Manhattan. As such, I have a built-in situational awareness barometer that helps keep me safe. It’s a sixth sense that city-kids have. We just “know” when things aren’t right. If we listen to our gut, we can stay out of trouble almost 100% of the time.

General Safety Tips you should always follow, whether you live in a big city or a small town.

- Don’t develop a pattern of behavior.

- Know your surroundings

- We have a “gut” for a reason. 99.9% of the time, going against it is bad form.

- Situational Awareness is your best friend. Not using it turns your surroundings into your worst enemy.

- Have your keys in your hands

- Small things we should all do, but rarely do.

- Have a buddy system

- Don’t look like a Victim

- Don’t be clueless

Read this interesting blogpost by Peter Shankman, an author, entrepreneur, speaker, and worldwide connector. This post had 70 tips at the time of this post.