FIRSTS IN INDIA (FEMALE)

1. India's first woman president - Smt. Pratibha Patil
2. India's first woman prime minister - smt. Indira Gandhi
3. India's first woman governor - Sarojini Naidu
4. India's first woman ruler - Razia Sultan 
5. India's first woman IPS officer - Kiran Bedi 
6. First woman CM of a state - Sucheta Kriplani (U. P) 
7. First woman union minister / first union health minister - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
8. First woman president of INC - Annie Besant
9. First woman judge of the supreme court - Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi 
10. First woman to get Ashok chakra - Nirja Bhanot 
11. First Indian woman ambassador of UN - Vijaya Lakshmi pandit 
12. First Indian woman to get the Nobel Prize - Mother Teresa (1979) 
13. First Indian woman to climb the Mt. Everest - bachendri pal 
14. First Indian woman to climb the Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav 
15. First Indian woman to get Bharat Ratna - Smt. Indira Gandhi  
16. First Indian woman Airline pilot - Durga Banerjee 
17. First Indian woman president of I. N Congress - Sarojini Naidu (1925)
18. First Indian woman to win the booker prize - Arundhati Roy 
19. First woman musician to get Bharat Ratna - M. S Subbulakshmi 
20. First Indian woman to go into space - Kalpana Chawla