First Women in India

Female Personality	Year	Role
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
Arunima Sinha	2013	the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first Indian amputee to climb the Everest.
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