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Jacinda Ardern
NZ, 40th PM, 3rd – Female PM
Soumya Swaminathan
WHO deputy director general
Krishna Kumari
Pakistan’s Sindh province has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in the Muslim-majority country from Thar is a member of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Jaipur’s Gandhi Nagar becomes India’s first all-women nonsuburban station Neelam Jatav will be Gandhi Nagar’s first woman station superintendent
Avani Chaturvedi
becomes first-ever Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo MiG-21 India’s first-ever women fighter pilots Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh
Aruna Budda Reddy
she became India’s first World Cup medal winner in Gymnast with a bronze in Melbourne.
Jhulan Goswami
• India’s Jhulan Goswami – first woman cricketer to take 200 wickets
RADHIKA MENON
RADHIKA MENON, THE FIRST WOMAN CAPTAIN IN THE INDIAN MERCHANT NAVY
Vartika Joshi
Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi skippers
Navika Sagar Parikrama
INSV tarini
first-ever voyage to circumnavigate the world
Debjani Ghosh
Debjani Ghosh becomes the first woman to head Nasscom in 30 years
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)
• The first all-women station in India, Matunga on Central Railway (CR), manned by a staff of 41 women, has entered the Limca Book of Records
• Station Manager Mamta Kulkarni
Kulkarni also holds the distinction of becoming the first woman assistant station manager to be recruited on the CR’s Mumbai Division in 1992.
Kavita Devi, India’s first woman WWE wrestler
Shubhangi Swaroop became Indian Navy’s first woman pilot
India’s first ever Woman Fire Fighter – Harshini Kanhekar
Surekha, now 51, became India’s first female passenger train driver in 1988.
Nirmala Sitharaman – 1st full time woman defence minister
Anny Divya hails from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh
First Female Captain of a Boeing 777
Esther Staubli
First female referee to officiate at FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017, Country: Switzerland
Usha Ananthasubramanian becomes first woman chairman of IBA – Indian Banks Association
World Weightlifting Championships: Mirabai Chanu won India’s first gold in 22 years From Manipur
First Transgender Judge in India – Joyita Mandal
Jamida Beevi, the first Muslim woman to lead Friday prayers in
India Kerala’s Malappuram district
Ekta Bisht: First Indian Women Cricketer to Make It to Both
ICC ODI & T20 Teams
Karnataka’s First Woman DG-IGP, Neelamani N Raju
Kerala’s First Woman IPS Officer and Its First Woman DGP, R. Sreelekha
Sabi Giri, a trans woman, who gave seven years of her life to the Indian Navy, was fired just because she chose to express her gender.
GR Radhika
The Additional Superintendent of Police, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh,
became the first woman to climb Mt Elbrus, a dormant volcano and the highest mountain in Europe.
She is also the first woman police officer from India to have scaled Mt Everest (May 2016), Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak
in Africa, (August 2016), and Mt Kosciusko, Australia’s highest peak, (March 2017), among others.
Roopa Moudgil
the first woman Indian Police Service (IPS) official from Karnataka. Exposed Sasikala’s VIP Treatment
Parvathy
She became the first Malayalam actor to win the silver peacock award at the International Film festival for Take Off.
Lucknow – first woman Mayor in 100 years Sanyukta Bhatia
Bhumika Sharma, the first Indian woman to win the Miss World bodybuilding championship
Justice Abhilasha Kumari is Manipur HC’s first woman chief justice
Indu Malhotra – first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the supreme court
First woman chief justice of Delhi G ROHINI high court became head of the panel on OBC sub-categorisation
Justice Manjula Chellur,
retired from service Chellur was the second woman judge to be appointed as the
Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, the first being Justice Sujata Manohar
Snehlata Shrivastava appointed first woman Lok Sabha Secretary General
Atita Verghese: India’s first female pro skateboarder
India’s Mithali Raj
highest run scorer in women’s cricket India captain Mithali Raj has created a world record by becoming the first player to cross 6,000 runs in the history of women’s oneday
internationals
Sharmila Nicollet became the first Indian golfer to qualify for the
China Ladies PGA Tour
Aanchal Thakur created history by winning India’s first medal in an international skiing competition
Halima Yacub – Singapore – first woman President
Nagpur’s visually impaired swimmer, Kanchanmala Pande,
became the first ever Indian to win a gold medal at the World Para Swimming Championship
Neeru Chadha, 1st Indian woman on UN law board
First Sikh woman elected as mayor in the U.S : Preet Didbal
Nitasha Biswas,
the Miss Trans Queen 2017
Pratibha and Prachi, the first two women drivers to inaugurate a metro ride
The pilot run for the Lucknow Metro was done by two women — Pratibha Sharma and Prachi Sharma. Hailing from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, these two are the first women in the country to start the operations of a metro rail.
Dr Bharati Lavekar set up India’s first digital sanitary pad bank.
It was inaugurated on 28 May 2017, which is celebrated as World Menstruation Hygiene Day.
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