List of First Indian Women Who Have Achieved Big In Their Respective Fields :

First Indian women in Space: Kalpana Chawla

First Indian woman travelled into space - twice: Sunita Williams

First Women's University: Maharshi Karve starts SNDT University in Pune with five students in 1916.

First Woman to hold a Union Cabinet post: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

First Woman president of UN General Assembly: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953)

First Woman Prime Minister of India: Indira Gandhi (1966)

First Woman IPS Officer of India: Kiran Bedi (1972)

First Woman to win Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa (1979)

First Indian Woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal (1984)

First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007)

First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar (2009)

First Woman judge in Supreme Court: Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

First Woman Ambassador: Miss C.B. Muthamma

First Woman to climb Mount Everest - twice: Santosh Yadav

First Woman President of the Indian National Congress: Mrs. Annie Besant

First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian State: Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani

First Woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission: Roze Millian Bethew

First Woman Director General of Police (DGP): Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

First Woman Lieutenant General: Puneeta Arora

First Woman Air Vice Marshal: P. Bandopadhyaya

First Woman chairperson of Indian Airlines: Sushama Chawala

First & Last Muslim Woman ruler of Delhi: Razia Sultan

First Woman to receive Ashoka Chakra: Niraja Bhanot

First Woman to cross English Channel: Arati Saha

First Woman to receive Bharat Ratna: Indira Gandhi

First Woman Headmistress in school: Savitribai Phule

First Indian Woman to win Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy (1997)