List of Women Achievers 2019
List of Women Achievers 2019
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Gita Gopinath
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First woman Chief Economist of IMF
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M.A Sneha
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First Indian woman to be recognised caste and
religion-less legally
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Garima Arora
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First Indian female chef to be conferred with the
Michelin star and also named as Asia's best female chef for 2019
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Hina Jaiswal
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Dr. G C Anupama
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First woman to head Astronomical Society of
India, the prime association of professional astronomers in the country
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Shikha Surabhi
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First and only woman officer in the Indian Army's
Motorcycle Daredevils Squad at the Republic Day parade 2019
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Bhavana Kasturi
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First woman army officer to lead an all-men
contingent at the Republic Day parade 2019
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Chandrima Shaha
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First woman to get elected as President of Indian
National Science Academy (INSA)
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Aishwarya Pissey
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First Indian to claim a world title in
motorsports by winning FIM World Cup
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Shalija Dhami
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India's First Women Officer to be appointed as
flight commander of a flying unit
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Anshula Kant
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First woman Chief Financial officer of the
World Bank Group
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Priyanka Chopra
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First Indian Actress to represent our Nation in
Hollywood.
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P V Sindhu
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First Indian women to win a silver medal in
Olympic
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Nirmala Sitharaman
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India's First Woman Defence and Finance Minister.
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Karen Uhlenbeck
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First woman to receive Abel Prize
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Bhawana Kanth
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First woman fighter pilot of Indian Air Force
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Jayshree Vyas
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First independent women director of Bombay Stock
Exchange
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Aarohi Pandit
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First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean flying
solo in an ultra-light aircraft.
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G.S. Lakshmi
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First woman to be inducted into ICC match referee
panel
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Mithali Raj
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First female cricketer to play 200 ODIs
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Mary Kom
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First female boxer to win 6 gold medals at
Women’s Boxing World Championships
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Arunima Sinha
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First female amputee to climb the highest peak of
Antarctica - Mt Vinson and also to rescue dangerous reptiles like
crocodiles, gharials
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Claire Polosak
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First woman to umpire a men’s one-day
international.
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Stéphanie Frappart
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First ever woman to act as a main referee in the
top tier of French men’s football.
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Nahida Manzoor
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First woman from Jammu and Kashmir to scale the
world's highest peak -- Mount Everest.
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Mati Diop
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First black woman to win award at Cannes (2019)
Film Festival in 72 years
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Tengku Maimun
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First Woman Chief Justice of Malaysia
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Saray Khumalo
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First black woman from Africa to summit Mount
Everest
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Vedangi Kulkarni
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Fastest Asian to cycle the globe.
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List of Women Achievers 2018
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Name
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Achievement
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Aanchal Thakur
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India's first medal in an international skiing
competition.
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Shobhana Bhartia
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First Women CEO of National Newpaper.
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Sharmila Nicollet
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Become the first Indian golfer to qualify for the
China Ladies PGA Tour.
one of the 30 cards available in the 88-player field. |
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Indu Malhotra
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First woman lawyer to become Supreme Court Judge.
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Abhilasha Kumari
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First women Chief Justice of Manipur HC.
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Avani Chaturvedi
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First woman fighter pilot to fly fighter
jet.
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Sridevi
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Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) for Mom in
the 19th edition of the Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Bangkok.
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Usha Ananthasubramanian
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First woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association
IBA for the year 2017-18.
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Hima Das
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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.
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Frances McDormand
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Best Actress 2018 Oscar winner for her performance
as Mildred in the film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
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Mamta Kalia
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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
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Mirabai Chanu
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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.
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Priyanka Chopra
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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.
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Indra Nooyi
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She is an Indian American business executive and
currently the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.
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Aanchal Thakur
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She won India’s first International medal in
Skiing at the FIS International Skiing Competition held in Turkey (Alpine
Ejder 3200 Cup).
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Parbati Ghose
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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).
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Asma Jahangir
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She became Pakistan’s first woman to serve as the
President of Supreme Court Bar Association.
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Neelam Kapur
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She is an Indian Information Service officer of
1982 batch. She has taken over as Director General, Sports Authority of
India.
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Indu Malhotra
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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.
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Sridevi
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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.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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She is the leader of the National League
for Democracy and also the first and incumbent State Counsellor.
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Bidya Devi Bhandari
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She became Nepal's first woman president in 2015.
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Aditi Rao Hydri
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Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence award for her role in
movie ‘Bhoomi’ starring Sanjay Dutt. She was honoured as best leading lady
(critics award).
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Manu Bhaker
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She won two gold medals in shooting competition
at the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Aruna Reddy
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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.
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Begum Hamida Habibullah
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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).
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Krishna Kohli
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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.
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Gina Haspel
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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.
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Sanjitha Chanu
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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.
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Angela Merkel
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She is a German politician serving as Chancellor
of Germany since 2005 and also leader of centre right Christian Democratic
Union since 2000.
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Taniya Sanyal
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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.
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Manika Batra
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She is a 22 year old paddler who won two gold,
one silver and a bronze at 18th Gold Coast game held in Australia.
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M C Mary Kom
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She is a 35 year old Olympic bronze winner. She
won Gold medal at the 18th Gold Coast game held in Australia.
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Olga Tokarczuk
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She is a polish writer who won has the
prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction for Flights
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Sudha Balakrishnan
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She has taken charge as the first Chief Finanical
Officer. She will be 12th executive director of the RBI. Formerly she was executive vice
president of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
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Abhilasha Kumari
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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.
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Peggy Whitson
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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.
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Kunwar Bai
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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.
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Anandiben Patel
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She was former Gujarat CM. She has been appointed
as Governor of MP. She succeeded Narendra Modi to became first woman CM of
Gujarat.
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Smriti Mandana
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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.
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Anukreethy Vas
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She has been recently crowned as Femina Miss
India 2018.
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Pallavi Durua
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She was crowned as the first Tribal Queen of
India at the Adi Rani Kalinga Tribal Queen competition. S
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Kalki Koechlin
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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.
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Harmanpreet Kaur
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She became the first Indian woman to score a
hundred at WT20 cup which is being held in Windies.
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Debjani Ghosh
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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.
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Joyita Mandal
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Joyita Mondal Mahi became the first transgender
judge of a Lok Adalat. Joyita is also a social worker from West Bengal,
India.
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Jamida Beevi
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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.
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Women Achievers 2017
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Achievement
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Nirmala Sitharaman
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1st woman Defence Minister (full time) of India
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Bhawana Kanth
Mohana Singh |
India's 1st women fighter pilots
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Mithali Raj
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1st player to cross 6,000 runs in women ODI
(highest run scorer)
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Jacinda Ardern
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Became 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand and the
3rd female PM
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Shubhangi Swaroop
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1st woman pilot in Indian Navy
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Soumya Swaminathan
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WHO Deputy Director General
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Esther Staubli
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1st female referee to officiate at FIFA U-17
World Cup 2017
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Jhulan Goswami
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1st woman cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets
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Atita Verghese
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India's 1st female pro-skateboarder
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Neelam Jatav
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Gandhinagar's 1st woman station superintendent;
Gandhinagar (Jaipur) recently became India's 1st all woman non-suburban station |
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Debjani Ghosh
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1st woman to head NASSCOM in 30 yrs.
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Kavita Devi
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India's 1st woman WWE wrestler
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Aruna Budda Reddy
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India's 1st World Cup medal winner (Bronze) in
Gymnast
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Radhika Menon
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1st woman captain in the Indian Merchant Navy
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Anny Divya
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1st female captain of Boeing 777
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Halima Yacub
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1st woman President of Singapore
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Jamida Beevi
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1st Indian Muslim woman to lead Friday prayers
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Neelamani N Raju
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1st woman DG-IGP of Karnataka
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Mamta Kulkarni
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Station Manager at the 1st all-women station in
India- Matunga (Central Railway)
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G Rohini
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Head of the sub-panel on OBC sub-categorisation
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Nitasha Biswas
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Miss Trans Queen 2017
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Joyita Mandal
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India's 1st Transgender Judge
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Kanchanmala Pandey
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1st Indian to win Gold medal at the World Para
Swimming Championship
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Sanyukta Bhatia
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Lucknow's 1st woman Mayor in 100 yrs
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Krishna Kumari
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1st ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in Pakistan's
Sindh province
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Roopa Moudgil
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1st IPS officer from Karnataka
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Neeru Chadha
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1st Indian woman on UN Law Board
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Pratibha & Prachi
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1st women in India to start operations (pilot
run) of a metro rail (Lucknow Metro)
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R Sreelekh
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1st woman IPS officer and 1st woman DGP of Kerala
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Ekta Bisht
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1st Indian Women cricketer to enter ICC ODI and
T20 Teams
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Harshini Kanhekar
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India's 1st ever woman firefighter
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Mirabai Chanu
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Won India's 1st Gold in World Weightlifting
Championship (in last 22 yrs.)
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Gr Radhika
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1st woman to climb Mt Elbrus (highest mountain in
Europe)
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Parvathy
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1st Malayalam actor to win the silver peacock
award at the International Film Festival
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Bharati Lavekar
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Developed India's 1st digital sanitary pad bank
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Bhumika Sharma
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1st Indian woman to win Miss World Bodybuilding
Championship
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Snehlata Srivastava
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1st Lok Sabha Secretary General of India
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Preet Didbal
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1st Sikh woman to be elected as a Mayor in the
USA
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Chitra Ramkrishna
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First women managing director (MD) and CEO of the
National Stock Exchange.
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Tessy Thomas
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First Indian women scientist to lead a missile
project
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Arundhati Bhattacharya
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First women to lead an India-based Fortune India
500 company and First women to be chairman of the SBI.
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