Women Who Made A Difference (last names)

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  1. 4. In 1992 she became the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army.
  2. 5. In 1917 she became the first female president of the Indian National Congress.
  3. 7. In the 2000 Summer Olympics held at Sydney, she became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze).
  4. 9. The first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School, currently she is the country head of HSBC (India) and has also been a recipient of the Padma Shri in 2007.
  5. 10. The first woman IAS officer of independent India, she was posted as a Magistrate and then as an Assistant Commissioner in Delhi.
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  1. 1. She was the first Indian and Asian to win the Miss World title in the year 1966, after which she went on to study medicine and became a doctor.
  2. 2. She became the first woman Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in independent India in 1963. She was also a freedom fighter and one of the few women who were elected to the Constituent Assembly.
  3. 3. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed as a judge of the apex court of a country in the whole of Asia (of Supreme Court of India).
  4. 6. She became the first woman in India and the fifth in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1984.
  5. 8. She was the first woman of India and the world to become the president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1953.