| No. | Field | Person |
|---|
| 1 | The first woman Prime Minister | Mrs Indira Gandhi |
| 2 | The first lady to become Miss World | Rita Faria |
| 3 | The first woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| 4 | The first woman Ambassador | Miss C.B. Muthamma |
| 5 | The first woman Governor of a state in free India | Mrs Sarojini Naidu |
| 6 | The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly | Shanno Devi |
| 7 | The first woman Minister in a Government | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur |
| 8 | The first woman to climb Mount Everest | Bachhendri Pal |
| 9 | The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| 10 | The first woman President of Indian National Congress | Mrs Annie Besant |
| 11 | The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force | Harita Kaur Dayal |
| 12 | The first woman Graduates | Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883 |
| 13 | The first woman Airline Pilot | Durba Banerjee |
| 14 | The first woman Honours Graduate | Kamini Roy, 1886 |
| 15 | The first woman Olympic medal Winner | Karnam Malleswari, 2000 |
| 16 | The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner | Kamlijit Sandhu |
| 17 | The first woman Lawyer | Cornelia Sorabjee |
| 18 | The first woman President of United Nations General Assembly | Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit |
| 19 | The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs Sucheta Kripalani |
| 20 | The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| 21 | The first woman Director General of Police | Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya |
| 22 | The first woman Judge | Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937) |
| 23 | The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court | Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) |
| 24 | The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India | Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi |
| 25 | The first woman Lieutenant General | Puneeta Arora |
| 26 | The first woman Air Vice Marshal | P. Bandopadhyaya |
| 27 | The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines | Sushma Chawla |
| 28 | The first woman IPS officer | Mrs. Kiran Bedi |
| 29 | The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India | Razia Sultan |
| 30 | The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra | Nirja Bhanot |
| 31 | The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award | Ashapurna Devi |
| 32 | The first woman to cross English Channel | Aarti Saha |
| 33 | The first woman to receive Nobel Prize | Mother Teresa |
| 34 | The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna | Mrs Indira Gandhi |