First in India – Woman - TNPSC Notes

 First Women’s University – SNDT University in Pune started by Maharshi Karve with five students in 1916.

First Women to hold a Union Cabinet post – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

First Women to hold a Union Foreign Minister’s – Sushma Swaraj (2014).

First Women youngest Minister of a State – Sushma Swaraj (She became the cabinet minister of Haryana when she was only 25 yrs old).

First Women Governor of Independent India – Sarojini Naidu, in charge of United Provinces.

First Women President of UN General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953).

First Women Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi (1966).

First Women IPS Officer of India – Kiran Bedi (1972).

First Women to win Nobel Peace Prize – Mother Teresa (1979).

First Indian Women to climb Mount Everest – Bachendri Pal (1984).

First Indian Women to win Booker Prize – Arundhati Roy (1997).

First Women President – Pratibha Patil (2007).

First Women Speaker of LokSabha – Meira Kumar (2009).

First Women judge in Supreme Court – Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi.

First Women President of the Indian National Congress – Annie Besant.

First Women Chief Minister of an Indian State – Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh).

First Women Director General of Police (DGP) – Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya.

First women defence Minister of India – Nirmala Sitharaman.

India's first full-time Finance Minister – Nirmala Sitharaman. (Indira Gandhi is the India's first Finance Minister (1969 – 1970))