First Women in India
| 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 governor of Independent India | Sarojini Naidu, in charge of United Provinces |
| First Woman president of UN General Assembly | 1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
| First Woman Prime Minister of India | 1966 Indira Gandhi |
| First Woman IPS Officer of India | 1972 Kiran Bedi |
| First Woman to win Nobel Peace Prize | 1979 Mother Teresa |
| First Indian Woman to climb Mount Everest | 1984 Bachendri Pal |
| First Indian Woman to win Booker Prize | 1997 Arundhati Roy |
| First Woman President | 2007 Pratibha Patil |
| First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha | 2009 Meira Kumar |
| First Indian Woman to become "Miss World" | Rita Faria |
| 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 to receive Gyanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| First Woman Headmistress in school | Savitribai Phule |
| First Indian woman who reached Antarctica | Mahel Musa |