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Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
The husband and wife set up India's first girls' school in Vishrambag Wada, Pune, in 1848. [ 30 ] He championed widow remarriage and started a home for dominant caste pregnant widows to give birth in a safe and secure place in 1863. [ 31 ]
Indira Gandhi, India (1966–1977): The first female prime minister of a present-day G20 country. She served again 1980–1984. She served again 1980–1984. Soong Ching-ling , China (1968–1972): The first female acting co-head of state (Co-Chairperson).
She had a number of firsts to her name: the first female student to be admitted into a men's college, the first woman House Surgeon in the Government Maternity and Ophthalmic Hospital, the first woman Legislator in British India, the first Chairperson of the State Social Welfare Advisory Board, the first woman Deputy President of the ...
Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn't have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued higher studies in a foreign country, became a college professor ...
[1] [2] A former employee of Indian Railways, she was the first woman to compete for India in a skydiving competition in 1987 and has the record of being the first Indian female to skydive over the North Pole in 2002. [1] [2] [3] She completed 650 jumps [2] in 18 countries [3] during her career, since her first jump in 1979. [1]
Emblem of the Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi. This is a list of women judges of the Supreme Court of India, the highest court in the Republic of India. The list is ordered according to chronology. The first woman to become a justice in the court was Fathima Beevi, appointed on 6 October 1989. There have been 11 ...
She was the first foreign woman among his students in the yogasala in the Mysore Palace, studying alongside B.K.S Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois who went on to become world-famous yoga teachers. [6] [9] [14] When she was leaving India to follow her husband to China, Krishnamacharya asked her to work as a yoga teacher there. [6]