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GK - First Women in India

  

First Indian Woman Doctor Anandi Gopal Joshi 1886 Pune, British India
First Women's University
 Maharshi Karve starts SNDT University

1916. 

(Pune)

Maharashtra 
First Woman President of INC Annie Besant 1917 London, UK
First Indian Woman President of INC Sarojini Naidu 1925 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)
First Indian Woman Airline Pilot Sarla Thakral 1936 New Delhi
India’s First Woman Governor (Uttar Pradesh) Sarojini Naidu 1947 - 1949 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)
First Indian Woman Ambassador at UN Vijalakshmi Pandit 1947 - 1949 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
First Woman Union Minister (Minister of Health) Rajkumari Amrita Kaur 1947 - 1957 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
First Indian Woman to swim across English Channel Arati Saha 1959 Kolkata, West Bengal
First Indian woman to get Arjuna Award Stephie D'Souza 1963 Goa
First Woman Chief Minister of State (Uttar Pradesh) Sucheta Kripalani 1963 - 1967 Ambala, Punjab (Now in Haryana)
India’s First Woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1966-1977 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
First Indian Woman to become Miss World Miss Reita Faria 1966 British Bombay (Now Mumbai)
First Indian Woman to win Gold in Asian
Games
Kamaljeet Sandhu 1970 Punjab
First Indian Woman to get Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi 1971 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
First Indian Woman to get Jnanpith Award Ashapoorna Devi 1976 Culcutta (Now Kolkata, West Bengal)
First Indian Woman to get Nobel Prize Mother Terasa 1979 West Germany (Now Macedonia)
First Indian Women to win Oscar Award Bhanu Athaiya 1983 Kolhapur, British India (Now Maharashtra)
First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest Bachendri Pal 1984 Uttrakashi (Now Uttarakand)
First Woman to get Ashok Chakra Nirja Bhanot 1987 Chandigarh, Punjab
First Woman Judge of Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi 1989 Pathanamthitta, Kerala
First Indian Woman to become Miss Universe Susmita Sen 1994 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)
First Indian Woman to Booker Prize Arundhati Roy 1997 Shillong, Assam (Present Meghalaya)
First Indian Woman to go to space Kalpana Chawla 1997 Karnal, Punjab (Now Haryana)
First Woman Musician to get Bharat Ratna MS Subbalakshmi 1998 Madurai, Tamilnadu
First Indian Woman to win Medal in Olymbic Karnam Malleswari 2000 Andhra Pradesh
First Indian Woman to win WTA Title Sania Mirza 2004 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (Now Telangana)
First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha  Meira Kumar  2009  
India’s First Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi 1975 (In Delhi) Amritsar, Punjab.
First Indian Woman to climb Mt Everest twice Santhosh Yadhav 1992, 1993 Haryana
India’s First Woman President Pratiba Patil 2007 - 2012 Maharashtra
First Woman Union Foreign Minister
Sushma Swaraj

2014

 
First transgender woman to be a police officer in India (Dharmapuri) K Prithika Yashini 2017 (Dharmapuri) Tamilnadu
First Woman Ambassador C. B. Muthamma    
First Woman Lieutenant General  Puneeta Arora    
First Woman Air Vice Marshal  P. Bandopadhyay    
First Woman Headmistress in school   Savitribai Phule    

First Woman to hold a Union Cabinet post Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Pre-Independence)

 

First Woman youngest minister of a state Sushma Swaraj (She became the cabinet minister of Haryana when she was only 25 yrs old)
 
First Woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission Roze Millian Bethew
 
First Woman Director General of Police (DGP)  Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
 
First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines Sushama Chawala
 
First & Last Muslim Woman ruler of Delhi   Razia Sultana

 

First Woman to receive Gyanpith Award  Ashapurna Devi
 
First Indian woman who reached Antarctica Mahel Musa
 
First Indian woman who become an individual member of International Olympic Committee  Nita Ambani (2016)
 
First Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peaks Premlata Agrawal
 
First woman amputee to scale Everest  Arunima Sinha
 
First twins ever to conquer Mount Everest Tashi and Nancy Malik
 
First Indian woman scientist selected as fellow in London's Royal Society Gagandeep Kang
 
First women defense Minister of India (full time) Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
 
First woman Finance Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
 
First woman Chief Minister of Delhi Smt. Sushma Swaraj
 
First Visually Impaired Women IAS Officer Pranjal Patil
 
First woman DIG in Indian Coast Guard Nupur Kulshrestha
 
First woman Chief Election Commissioner of India Smt V. S. Rama Devi(26 November 1990-11 December 1990)