{"id":2312,"date":"2021-05-17T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T04:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:03:34","slug":"list-of-first-women-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/list-of-first-women-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"List of First Women in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women empowerment or female empowerment is the way through which we try to empower women in every field. It has several definitions to give such as listening to women, educating women, letting them raise their voice towards certain topics, understanding and accepting their viewpoint, providing equal opportunities in every field, letting a woman be financially independent, and the list can go on. Women’s empowerment allows and provides paths to women and letting them make their own decisions which determine their life through all the obstacles society throws at them. Women empowerment nowadays has become an important and burning topic in economics and development as economic independence or economic empowerment can lead women to utilize the resources, assets, and income that can lead to a better society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People often think that why to provide so many opportunities to women as they are weak, less capable, have less determination towards work, etc., but they forget that women are the counterpart of the society and by all means, they have the right to go for anything they are willing of. If here we talk about women being physically weak in contrast a woman or a female has the capability of bringing a new life in this world, and if we talk about facts than physiology men and women are different and they will always be but God has provided the same brain to all the humans, so why not judge someone based on their capabilities rather on their gender, let’s talk about the intelligence, caliber, potential, pressures handle capacity, leadership quality, and other personality traits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Women have always been shattering those glass ceilings and telling the world that what they are capable of, women have done so many things despite all the restrictions and boundaries that people have created for them, and we have uncountable such women in our history, present, and will be in future too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

List of First Women in India\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

So many women our India have raised to set an example for the world that what capabilities does a woman can have, some of the honorable mentions are given here:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name of Women<\/strong><\/td>\nAchievement<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smt. Pratibha Patil<\/span><\/td>\nFirst woman president of India<\/span><\/td>\nServed as the 12<\/span>th<\/span> president of India from 2007 till 2012.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smt. Indra Gandhi<\/span><\/td>\nIndia’s first woman Prime Minister, and first Bharat Ratna winner.<\/span><\/td>\nBecame motivation for the millions of girls. She served as prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sarojini Naidu<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Women Governor and also first woman president of INC(Indian National Congress)<\/span><\/td>\nAn activist, a poet and also called \u201cThe Nightingale of India”.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Razia Sultan<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman ruler on Delhi throne<\/span><\/td>\nShe was the first Muslim woman to rule and also the last.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kiran Bedi<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman IPS officer<\/span><\/td>\nThis lady has inspired a lot of hearts<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sucheta Kripalani<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman Chief Minister of a state ( Uttar Pradesh)<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rajkumari Amrita Kaur<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman Union minister<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Annie Besant<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman President of INC(Indian National Congress)<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman Supreme Court<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nirja Bhanot<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman, who got Ashok Chakra<\/span><\/td>\nA brave flight attendant saved many lives during the plane hijack.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vijayalakshmi Pandit<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman Ambassador at United Nations<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arati Saha<\/span><\/td>\nFirst Woman to swim across the English Channel<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mother Teresa<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman to received Noble Prize<\/span><\/td>\nShe served Indian people selflessly and became popular for spreading peace.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bachendri Pal<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s first woman to climb the Mt.Everest<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miss Reita Faria<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s first woman to become Miss World<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Santosh Yadav<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman to climb Mt.Everest Twice<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sushmita Sen<\/span><\/td>\nIndia\u2019s First Woman to become Miss Universe<\/span><\/td>\nA well-known Bollywood actress too.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ashapurna Devi<\/span><\/td>\nFirst Indian woman to received Jnanpith Award<\/span><\/td>\nShe was a famous poet and novelist.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sania Mirza<\/span><\/td>\nfirst Indian Woman to won WTA(WOMEN\u2019S TENNIS ASSOCIATION) title<\/span><\/td>\nShe is a reputed Indian tennis player.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Durga Banerjee<\/span><\/td>\nFirst Indian Woman airline pilot<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kamaljeet Sandhu<\/span><\/td>\nFirst\u00a0 Indian Woman to win a Gold in Asian Games<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arundhati Roy<\/span><\/td>\nFirst Indian woman to win Booker Prize<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
M.S. Subbulakshmi<\/span><\/td>\nFirst Indian woman musician to get Bharat Ratna<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalpana Chawla<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nFirst Indian woman to go into space.<\/span><\/td>\n–<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

All of the above-mentioned women have faced their different challenges but accepted all of them and fought with all of their hearts and eventually won and made names written in golden words with their works.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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