This week at the eighth annual Women in the World Summit, led by the journalist Tina Brown, activists will talk about the experiences that ignited their sense of purpose. Here is a sampling. BARKHA DUTT, television journalist, author and founding editor, Mojo Media I grew up as the daughter of India’s first woman war correspondent. My mother, Prabha Dutt, who was initially denied a job at a leading newspaper (female reporters were good for covering flower shows is what they told her), went alone to the front line to report the 1965 India-Pakistan war. Three decades later, I reported the 1999 Kargil conflict from the war front, but only after bypassing massive resistance to having a woman in an all-male battle zone. I realized then with gratitude how my mother and the women of her generation had wrenched the doors of prejudice open, to let in the light for those of us who followed. That, my mother taught me, is what feminism is about — freedom.

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