List of women first in India
- The first woman to climb on Mount Everest twice in 5 days- Anshu jamsenpa.
- First woman to be inducted into the Indian Navy as a pilot. - Shubhangi Swaroop
- First woman President - Smt. Pratibha Patil
- First woman Prime Minister- Smt. Indira Gandhi
- First woman governor- Sarojini Naidu.
- First woman ruler on Delhi throne - Razia Sultana.
- First woman IPS officer - Kiran Bedi.
- First woman chief minister of a state - Sucheta Kriplani (UP).
- First woman Union Minister - Rajkumari Amrita Kaur.
- First woman president of Indian National Congress - Annie Besant.
- First woman judge of the supreme court - Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi.
- First woman to get Ashok Chakra - Neerja Bhanot.
- First woman to swim across English Channel - Aarti Saha (Gupta)
- First Indian woman to get the Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa (1979).
- First Indian woman to climb the Mount -Everest Bachendri Pal.
- First Indian woman to become miss world -Miss Rita Faria.
- First Indian woman to climb the Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav.
- First Indian woman to become Miss Universe - Sushmita Sen.
- First Indian woman to get Jnanpith Award - Ashapurna Devi.
- First Indian woman to get Bharat Ratna - Smt. Indira Gandhi.
- First Indian woman to win WTA title - Sania Mirza.
- First Indian woman to win a gold in Asian games - Kamaljeet Sandhu.
- First Indian woman airline pilot - Durga Banerjee.
- First Indian woman president of Indian National Congress - Sarojini Naidu (1925).
- First Indian woman to win the Booker prize - Arundhati Roy.
- First woman musician to get Bharat Ratna- M. S. Subbulakshmi.
- First Indian woman to go into space - Kalpana Chawla.
- First Indian woman to be elected as judge of the international Tribunal for the law of sea - Dr.Neeru Chadha
- First woman secretary general of Lok Sabha- Snehlata Shrivastava.
- First woman to be appointed as the judge of the supreme court directly from the bar - Indu Malhotra
- First woman to be appointed as the chairman of Indian bank Association - Usha ananthasubramanian.
- First woman Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar
- First woman cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets - jhulan Nishit Goswami.
- First Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympic.- Dipa Karmakar
