First in India (Female) 

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List of first in India: This section will represent the updated list of first women in India in various fields.

First in India (Female)

The list of First in India (Female Personalities):

Activities	Personalities
First Woman to hold a Union Cabinet post	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
First Woman to hold a Union Foreign Minister's post	Sushma Swaraj(She became the cabinet minister of Haryana when she was only 25 yrs old)
First Woman youngest minister of a state	Sushma Swaraj
First Woman Governor of Independent India	Sarojini Naidu, in charge of United Provinces
First Woman President of UN General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953)
First Woman Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi (1966)
First Woman IPS Officer of India	Kiran Bedi (1972)
First Woman to win Nobel Peace Prize	Mother Teresa (1979)
First Indian Woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachendri Pal (1984)
First Indian Woman to win Booker Prize	Arundhati Roy (1997)
First Woman President	Pratibha Patil (2007)
First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha	Meira Kumar (2009)
First Indian Woman to become "Miss World"	Reita Faria
First Woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
First Woman Ambassador	Miss C. B. Muthamma
First Woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
First Woman President of the Indian National Congress	Mrs. Annie Besant
First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
First Woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Roze Millian Bethew
First Woman Director General of Police (DGP)	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
First Woman Lieutenant General	Puneeta Arora
First Woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyay
First Woman Chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushama Chawala
First & Last Muslim Woman ruler of Delhi	Razia Sultana
First Woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Niraja Bhanot
First Woman to cross the English Channel	Arati Saha
First Woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Indira Gandhi
First Woman to receive Gyanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
First Woman Headmistress in school	Savitribai Phule
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 a 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
First woman Cabinet Minister of India	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (Post-Independence), She became the Cabinet Minister for Health during the first Lok Sabha (1952-57).
First Women's University	Maharshi Karve starts SNDT University in Pune with five students in 1916.
India's first Female Train Driver	Surekha Yadav
India's first Female Tabla Maestro	Dr. Aban E. Mistry
India's first Female to fly an Aircraft	Sarla Thakral
First Female Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha in India	V. S. Ramadevi
First Indian Woman to complete her MBBS	Kadambini Ganguly
First Indian Woman Chief Engineer	P. K. Tresia Nanguli
India’s first Woman Sahitya Award Winner	Amrita Pritam
India’s first Woman to win WTA Tennis Tournament	Sania Mirza
First Indian Woman Barrister	Cornelia Sorabji
First Woman Chairperson of National Woman Commission	Mrs. Jayanti Patnaik
First Indian Woman to receive Asiad Gold Medal	Kamaljeet Sandhu
First Actress in the Indian Cinema	Devika Rani
First Indian Woman Doordarshan News Reader	Pratima Puri
First Indian Woman to reach in Olympic Games	Sini Abraham
India's first woman IAS officer after Independence	Anna Rajam Malhotra

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