List of Women Achievers 2019

Nirmala Sitharaman	India's First Woman Defence and Finance Minister.
Karen Uhlenbeck	First woman to receive Abel Prize
Bhawana Kanth	First woman fighter pilot of Indian Air Force
Jayshree Vyas	First independent women director of Bombay Stock Exchange
Aarohi Pandit	First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean flying solo in an ultra-light aircraft.
G.S. Lakshmi	First woman to be inducted into ICC match referee panel
Mithali Raj	First female cricketer to play 200 ODIs
Mary Kom	First female boxer to win 6 gold medals at Women’s Boxing World Championships
Arunima Sinha	First female amputee to climb the highest peak of Antarctica - Mt Vinson
Claire Polosak	First woman to umpire a men’s one-day international.
Stéphanie Frappart	First ever woman to act as a main referee in the top tier of French men’s football.
Nahida Manzoor	First woman from Jammu and Kashmir to scale the world's highest peak -- Mount Everest.
Mati Diop	First black woman to win award at Cannes (2019) Film Festival in 72 years
Tengku Maimun	First Woman Chief Justice of Malaysia
Saray Khumalo	First black woman from Africa to summit Mount Everest
Vedangi Kulkarni	Fastest Asian to cycle the globe.

List of Women Achievers 2018

Name	Achievement
Aanchal Thakur	India's first medal in an international skiing competition.
Sharmila Nicollet	Become the first Indian golfer to qualify for the China Ladies PGA Tour. one of the 30 cards available in the 88-player field.
Indu Malhotra	First woman lawyer to become Supreme Court Judge.
Abhilasha Kumari	First women Chief Justice of Manipur HC.
Avani Chaturvedi	First woman fighter pilot to fly fighter jet.
Sridevi	Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) for Mom in the 19th edition of the Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Bangkok.
Usha Ananthasubramanian	First woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association IBA for the year 2017-18.
Hima Das	Becomes first Indian woman to win gold in World Jr Athletics C'ships in the women's 400m final race in the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland on July 12, 2018.
Frances McDormand	Best Actress 2018 Oscar winner for her performance as Mildred in the film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
Mamta Kalia	She is the eminent Hindi writer. She was honoured with literary award Vyas Samman for year 2017 for her novel 'Dukkham Sukkham'. The Vyas Samman is given to a Hindi literary work published in the past 10 years. It is awarded annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation
Mirabai Chanu	She is an Indian Female Weightlifter. She hails from Manipur. She won a gold medal (48kg) at the World Championships Weightlifting Competition in California. She became only the second Indian after Karnam Malleswari to achieve this feat.
Priyanka Chopra	She won Mother Teresa Memorial Award for her work as a cause of fighting for the rights of refugees and displaced people. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador as well.
Indra Nooyi	She is an Indian American business executive and currently the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.
Aanchal Thakur	She won India’s first International medal in Skiing at the FIS International Skiing Competition held in Turkey (Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup).
Parbati Ghose	She is Odisha’s first female filmmaker. She was passed away in Feb 2018. She is as producer for films Bhai Bhai (1956), Lakshmi(1962) and Kaa(1966).
Asma Jahangir	She became Pakistan’s first woman to serve as the President of Supreme Court Bar Association.
Neelam Kapur	She is an Indian Information Service officer of 1982 batch. She has taken over as Director General, Sports Authority of India.
Indu Malhotra	She is senior counsel practising in the Supreme Court of India. She was the second woman to be designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in 2007.
Sridevi	Sridevi Boney Kapoor was an Indian actress and film producer who starred in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada films. she is the recipient of five Filmfare Awards. She passed away at age of 54 due to cardiac arrest in Dubai.
Aung San Suu Kyi	She is the leader of the National League for Democracy and also the first and incumbent State Counsellor.
Bidya Devi Bhandari	She became Nepal's first woman president in 2015.
Aditi Rao Hydri	Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence award for her role in movie ‘Bhoomi’ starring Sanjay Dutt. She was honoured as best leading lady (critics award).
Manu Bhaker	She won two gold medals in shooting competition at the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Aruna Reddy	She is an Indian female artist gymnast from Hyderabad. She won bronze medal in 2018 World Cup Gymnastics in women’s vault event held in Melbourne.
Begum Hamida Habibullah	She was a former Rajya Sabha member from 1976 to 1982 who passed away at the age of 101. She had worked with Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).
Krishna Kohli	She was elected to the member of the Senate of Pakistan, the upper house of Pakistan. She is the first Hindu Dalit woman and the second Hindu woman to hold the positon. She sometimes called by nickname Kishoo Bai.
Gina Haspel	She is an American Intelligence Officer and the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to become CIA’s first woman chief.
Sanjitha Chanu	She won the second gold medal for India in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She broke CWG record with a lift of 84kg in the snatch category and then lifted 108 in the clean & jerk to finish with a combined effort of 192kg.
Angela Merkel	She is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and also leader of centre right Christian Democratic Union since 2000.
Taniya Sanyal	She has been appointed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) as its first ever woman firefighter. Till now aviation authority didn’t have any woman in its firefighter team.
Manika Batra	She is a 22 year old paddler who won two gold, one silver and a bronze at 18^th Gold Coast game held in Australia.
M C Mary Kom	She is a 35 year old Olympic bronze winner. She won Gold medal at the 18^th Gold Coast game held in Australia.
Olga Tokarczuk	She is a polish writer who won has the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction for Flights
Sudha Balakrishnan	She has taken charge as the first Chief Finanical Officer. She will be 12^th executive director of the RBI. Formerly she was executive vice president of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
Abhilasha Kumari	She has sworn in as first women Chief Justice of Manipur High Court which seats at Imphal capital of Manipur. Earlier she had been Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
Peggy Whitson	She is NASA’s spacewoman. She has retired recently as astronaut after returning from her last and longest spaceflight. She is world’s most experienced female spacewalker. She was the first woman to command ISS holding the position twice.
Kunwar Bai	A 106 year old woman from Chhatisgarh was chosen as mascot for ‘Swach Bharat Abhiyan’ passed away due to prolonged illness. She had encouraged others from her village to built toilets.
Anandiben Patel	She was former Gujarat CM. She has been appointed as Governor of MP. She succeeded Narendra Modi to became first woman CM of Gujarat.
Smriti Mandana	She is Indian Women Cricket teams opener batsman. She became first Indian to compete for Kia T20 Super League in July 2018. She also has competed for Brisbane Heat in the Women's Big Bash League in Australia.
Anukreethy Vas	She has been recently crowned as Femina Miss India 2018.
Pallavi Durua	She was crowned as the first Tribal Queen of India at the Adi Rani Kalinga Tribal Queen competition. S
Kalki Koechlin	She was conferred with the French distinction of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) for her contribution in enhancing Indo-French ties in cinema. The award was presented by the Ambassador of France to India.
Harmanpreet Kaur	She became the first Indian woman to score a hundred at WT20 cup which is being held in Windies.
Debjani Ghosh	She has taken over as President of the National Association of Software and Services companies (Nasscom). She became the first woman to head tech body in 30 years.
Joyita Mandal	Joyita Mondal Mahi became the first transgender judge of a Lok Adalat. Joyita is also a social worker from West Bengal, India.
Jamida Beevi	She created history by becoming the first Muslim woman to lead Friday prayers in India. led around 30 men and women in namaaz in Kerala’s Malappuram district.

Women Achievers 2017

Name	Achievement
Nirmala Sitharaman	1st woman Defence Minister (full time) of India
Bhawana Kanth Mohana Singh	India's 1st women fighter pilots
Mithali Raj	1st player to cross 6,000 runs in women ODI (highest run scorer)
Jacinda Ardern	Became 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand and the 3rd female PM
Shubhangi Swaroop	1st woman pilot in Indian Navy
Soumya Swaminathan	WHO Deputy Director General
Esther Staubli	1st female referee to officiate at FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017
Jhulan Goswami	1st woman cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets
Atita Verghese	India's 1st female pro-skateboarder
Neelam Jatav	Gandhinagar's 1st woman station superintendent; Gandhinagar (Jaipur) recently became India's 1st all woman non-suburban station
Debjani Ghosh	1st woman to head NASSCOM in 30 yrs.
Kavita Devi	India's 1st woman WWE wrestler
Aruna Budda Reddy	India's 1st World Cup medal winner (Bronze) in Gymnast
Radhika Menon	1st woman captain in the Indian Merchant Navy
Anny Divya	1st female captain of Boeing 777
Halima Yacub	1st woman President of Singapore
Jamida Beevi	1st Indian Muslim woman to lead Friday prayers
Neelamani N Raju	1st woman DG-IGP of Karnataka
Mamta Kulkarni	Station Manager at the 1st all-women station in India- Matunga (Central Railway)
G Rohini	Head of the sub-panel on OBC sub-categorisation
Nitasha Biswas	Miss Trans Queen 2017
Joyita Mandal	India's 1st Transgender Judge
Kanchanmala Pandey	1st Indian to win Gold medal at the World Para Swimming Championship
Sanyukta Bhatia	Lucknow's 1st woman Mayor in 100 yrs
Krishna Kumari	1st ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in Pakistan's Sindh province
Roopa Moudgil	1st IPS officer from Karnataka
Neeru Chadha	1st Indian woman on UN Law Board
Pratibha & Prachi	1st women in India to start operations (pilot run) of a metro rail (Lucknow Metro)
R Sreelekh	1st woman IPS officer and 1st woman DGP of Kerala
Ekta Bisht	1st Indian Women cricketer to enter ICC ODI and T20 Teams
Harshini Kanhekar	India's 1st ever woman firefighter
Mirabai Chanu	Won India's 1st Gold in World Weightlifting Championship (in last 22 yrs.)
Gr Radhika	1st woman to climb Mt Elbrus (highest mountain in Europe)
Parvathy	1st Malayalam actor to win the silver peacock award at the International Film Festival
Bharati Lavekar	Developed India's 1st digital sanitary pad bank
Bhumika Sharma	1st Indian woman to win Miss World Bodybuilding Championship
Snehlata Srivastava	1st Lok Sabha Secretary General of India
Preet Didbal	1st Sikh woman to be elected as a Mayor in the USA