List of First Women in India

Female Personality	Year	Role
Nirmala Sitharaman	2019	India's First full-time woman Finance Minister
GS Lakshmi	2019	First ever woman to be appointed to the ICC International Panel of Match Referees
Vrinda Rathi	2019	First female national umpire to officiate in the T20 contest.
Arohi Pandit	2019	First Indian woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a light sport aircraft
Nirmala Sitharaman	2019	India's First woman Defence Minister
Gagandeep Kang	2019	First Indian woman to be elected Royal Society Fellow
Hina Jaiswal	2019	First Indian Woman Flight Engineer.
Divya Karnad	2019	First Indian woman to receive Future of Nature award for marine conservation.
Harmanpreet Kaur	2019	First women cricketer scored a century in T20
Captain Divya Ajith	2019	First female officer to lead a contingent on the Army Day parade
Lieutenant Bhavana Kasturi	2019	First female to lead the Indian Army's Service Corps (ASC) contingent, comprising 144 male personnel
Captain Shikha Surabhi	2019	First female to lead the Army's Daredevils Motorcycle Display team for the first time, comprising 33 men
Aditi Ashok	2019	First Indian female golfer to win the Ladies European Tour
Diksha Dagar	2019	Youngest Indian woman to win on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Arunima Sinha	2019	First female amputee to climb Mount Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica.
Hima Das	2018	First Indian woman athlete to win a gold at the world level in the women’s 400m final race in the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships
Rahi Sarnobat	2018	First Indian woman to win a shooting gold in the Asian Games
Savitribai Phule	1848	Savitribai Phule became the first woman teacher in India.
Annie Besant	1917	First female president of the Indian National Congress.
Pandita Ramabai	1919	First Indian woman to be awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal by the British Raj.
Sarojini Naidu	1925	First Indian born female president of the Indian National Congress.
Sarla Thakral	1936	the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft
Asima Chatterjee	1944	First Indian woman to be conferred the Doctorate of Science by an Indian university.
Amrit Kaur	1947	First female Cabinet minister of India in the country's first cabinet.
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi	1887	the first Indian female physician
Shila Dawre	1988	country's first woman autorickshaw driver when she first stepped into the 'male-dominated' zone
Reita Faria Powel	1966	Reita Faria Powel is an Indian model, doctor and beauty queen, who won Miss World also the first Asian woman to win the title
Arati Saha	1959	the first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel. She also became the first female sportsperson to be awarded Padma Shri in 1960.
Mother Teresa	1979	the first Indian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Indira Gandhi	1966	the first woman Prime Minister of India and served from 1966 to 1977. In 1971, she became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna award.
Pratibha Patil	2007-2012	the first woman President of India and held office from July 2007 to July 2012.
Kalpana Chawla	1997	the first Indian woman who reached in space. As a mission specialist and a primary robotic arm operator, she went into space in 1997.
Kiran Bedi	1972	Kiran Bedi became the first woman officer in India. Moreover, later in 2003, Kiran Bedi also became the first woman who was appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser.
Anjali Gupt	2001	Anjali Gupta is the first female flying officer in the Indian Air Force to be court-martialled
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	1953	the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly
Anna Chandy	1959	the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court)
Sucheta Kriplani	1963	the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the first woman to hold that position in any Indian state
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay	1966	Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership
Kamaljit Sandhu	1970	the first Indian woman to win a Gold in the Asian Games
Bachendri Pal	1984	Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest.
Surekha Yadav	1986	the first Asian woman loco-pilot or railway driver.
Justice M. Fathima Beevi	1989	the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India
Priya Jhingan	1992	the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army (later commissioned on 6 March 1993
Meira Kumar	4 June 2009	the first female Speaker of Lok Sabha.
Priyanka N.	20 October 2011	drove the inaugural train of the Namma Metro becoming the first female Indian metro pilot.
Mitali Madhumita	2011	the first woman officer to win a Sena Medal for gallantry.
Tanushree Pareek	25 March 2017	the first female combat officer commissioned by the Border Security Force
Sania Mirza	2005	the first ever Indian woman to win the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) title in 2005.
Saina Nehwal	2012-2015	Saina Nehwal becamethe first Indian women to win a medal in Badminton at 2012 Olympic Games. Later in 2015, she became the first Indian woman to secure no. 1 position in world rankings.
Mary Kom	2002,2005,2006,2008 2010	5-time World Amateur Boxing Champion. she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics
Deepa Malik	2016	First medal and that’s Silver won by her in Paralympics games in Summer Paralympics 2016.
Sushmita Sen	1994	The First Miss Universe
Tashi and Nancy Malik	2013	First twins ever to conquer Mount Everest together
Dr. Neeru Chadha	2017	First Indian Woman to be Elected as Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
Premlata Aggarwal	2008-2013	First Indian Woman Mountaineer to Scale the Seven Continental Peaks
Nita Ambani	2016	First Indian Woman Who Become an Individual Member of International Olympic Committee
Mahel Musa	1977	First Indian Woman Who Reached Antarctica
Ashapurna Devi	1976	First Woman to Receive jnanpith Award
Neerja Bhanot	1987	First Woman to Receive Ashoka Chakra
Razia Sultan	1236 to 1240	First & Last Muslim Woman Ruler of Delhi
Sushma Chawla	2005	First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines
P. Bandopadhyaya	1978	First Woman Air Vice Marshal
Puneeta Arora	2005	First Woman Lieutenant General
Miss C.B. Muthumma	1970	The first woman Ambassador
Santosh Yadav	1993	First woman to climb Mount Everest twice
Mrs. Leela Seth	1991	First woman chief justice of a high Court
Harita Kaur Deol	1994	First woman Pilot in Indian Air Force
Roze Millian Bethew	-	First woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya	-	First woman Director General of Police (DGP)