First women of India Part 3

First women of India Part 3

First women of India Part 3

First women of India Part 3

101. Mary Roy – First to win Supreme Court case on women’s equal inheritance (Kerala).

102. Shanta Sinha – First woman to win Ramon Magsaysay Award for child rights activism.

103. Dr. Indira Hinduja – Delivered India’s first test tube baby.

104. Dr. Aditi Pant – First Indian woman oceanographer to participate in Antarctica expedition.

105. Dr. Charusita Chakravarty – First woman to win Bhatnagar Prize in Theoretical Chemistry.

106. Dr. Sunita Krishnan – Pioneering researcher against human trafficking.

107. Rajeswari Chatterjee – First woman engineer from Karnataka & microwave expert.

108. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw – First Indian woman biotech entrepreneur.

109. Indra Nooyi – First Indian-origin woman to head PepsiCo globally.

110. Chanda Kochhar – First woman to head a major private bank in India (ICICI).

111. Arundhati Bhattacharya – First woman Chairperson of SBI.

112. Roshni Nadar – First woman to head a listed IT firm (HCL).

113. Shikha Sharma – First woman to lead Axis Bank.

114. Suchi Mukherjee – Founder of Limeroad, India’s first woman-led e-commerce fashion site.

115. Falguni Nayar – First woman to build a unicorn (Nykaa) from scratch.

116. Radhika Ghai – Co-founder of ShopClues, India's first woman co-founder of a unicorn.

117. Upasana Taku – First woman to lead a digital payments company (MobiKwik).

118. Priya Paul – First woman to head The Park Hotels group.

119. Debjani Ghosh – First woman President of NASSCOM.

120. Gita Gopinath – First woman Chief Economist at the IMF (of Indian origin).

121. Lakshmi Sahgal – First woman to head the INA women’s regiment (Rani of Jhansi Regiment).

122. Aruna Asaf Ali – First woman to hoist Indian flag during 1942 Quit India Movement.

123. Medha Patkar – First prominent woman to lead anti-dam displacement movement.

124. Vandana Shiva – First Indian woman ecologist to gain global recognition.

125. Kiran Bedi – First Indian woman to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service.

126. Ela Bhatt – First woman to found an all-women bank (SEWA).

127. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi – First transgender Indian to speak at the UN.

128. Neerja Bhanot – Youngest recipient of Ashoka Chakra (posthumously).

129. Gauri Sawant – First transgender woman to be a foster mother in India.

130. Rukmini Devi Arundale – First woman to be nominated to Rajya Sabha for art revival.

131. Surekha Yadav – First female train driver in India.

132. Mumtaz Kazi – First Muslim woman diesel loco pilot in India.

133. Prema Rajaram – First woman anchor on Indian Railways TV platform.

134. Jyoti Rani – First woman auto-rickshaw mechanic in India.

135. Bhavna Tokekar – First civilian woman bodybuilder from Indian Air Force family.

136. Deepika Kumari – First Indian woman to be world no. 1 in archery.

137. Shital Mahajan – First Indian woman skydiver to jump over North Pole.

138. Ajita Suchitra Veera – First Indian woman film director to enter Oscar contention (independent cinema).

139. Neeti Palta – First Indian woman stand-up comic to perform at Melbourne Comedy Fest.

140. Ritu Bhatia – First Indian woman to write openly on depression in India.

141. Roshika Deo – First woman to run for elections in Fiji of Indian descent.

142. Rajlakshmi Devi – First woman to lead an Indian women’s sports team abroad.

143. Maureen Fernandes – First Indian woman FIFA referee.

144. Shanti Soundararajan – First woman athlete to fail a gender test (controversial, landmark case).

145. Rani Gaidinliu – First woman tribal freedom fighter from Nagaland.

146. Irom Sharmila – First woman to carry out the world’s longest hunger strike (16 years).

147. Malavath Purna – First youngest tribal girl to scale Everest at 13.

148. Salma Sultan – First Doordarshan news anchor with signature rose style.

149. Usha Albuquerque – First woman to anchor English news on Doordarshan.

150. Shaili Chopra – First woman journalist to win Ramnath Goenka Award for Business Journalism.

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