First Indian Female in Various Fields

FIRST INDIAN FEMALE IN VARIOUS FIELDS

Serial No.	Category	Name	Achievement	Year
1	First Female Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi	Became the first female Prime Minister of India	1966
2	First Female President	Pratibha Patil	Became the first female President of India	2007
3	First Female Governor	Sarojini Naidu	Became the Governor of Uttar Pradesh	1947
4	First Female IPS Officer	Kiran Bedi	Joined the Indian Police Service	1972
5	First Female to win the Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa	Won the Nobel Peace Prize	1979
6	First Female Pilot	Sarla Thakral	Earned her pilot's license	1936
7	First Female Chief Minister of a State	Sucheta Kriplani	Became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh	1963
8	First Female to Climb Mount Everest	Bachendri Pal	Reached the summit of Mount Everest	1984
9	First Female to win a Booker Prize	Arundhati Roy	Won for her novel "The God of Small Things"	1997
10	First Female Astronaut	Kalpana Chawla	Flew on Space Shuttle Columbia	1997
11	First Female Speaker of Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar	Elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha	2009
12	First Female President of the UN General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	Elected as President of the UN General Assembly	1953
13	First Female to win a Medal in the Olympics	Karnam Malleswari	Won a bronze medal in weightlifting	2000
14	First Female Judge of the Supreme Court	Justice Fathima Beevi	Appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India	1989
15	First Female DGP (Director General of Police)	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya	Appointed as DGP of Uttarakhand	2004
16	First Female Finance Minister	Indira Gandhi	Held the additional charge as Finance Minister	1970
17	First Female to Win the Miss World Title	Reita Faria	Won the Miss World title	1966
18	First Female to win a gold medal in Asian Games	Kamaljeet Sandhu	Won gold in the 400m race at Asian Games	1970
19	First Female Ambassador	C.B. Muthamma	Appointed as India's Ambassador to Hungary	1970
20	First Female to receive Bharat Ratna	Indira Gandhi	Awarded the Bharat Ratna	1971
21	First Female Air Marshal	Padmavathy Bandopadhyay	Promoted to Air Marshal rank in the Indian Air Force	2002
22	First Female President of Indian National Congress	Annie Besant	Elected as the President of Indian National Congress	1917
23	First Female Commercial Pilot	Durba Banerjee	Became the first Indian woman to fly commercial aircraft	1956
24	First Female Chief Justice of a High Court	Leila Seth	Became Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court	1991
25	First Female Director General of Police (DGP)	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya	Appointed as DGP of Uttarakhand	2004
26	First Female to win the Padma Shri	Anna Malhotra	Awarded for her contribution to civil services	1968
27	First Female Scientist in Indian Antarctic Mission	Sudipta Sengupta	Participated in the Indian Antarctic Expedition	1983
28	First Female to win a Grammy Award	Tanvi Shah	Won as a part of A. R. Rahman’s team for Slumdog Millionaire	2008
29	First Female to become CEO of a Fortune 500 Company	Indra Nooyi	Became the CEO of PepsiCo	2007
30	First Female President of NASSCOM	Debjani Ghosh	Elected as President of NASSCOM	2018