women achievers

Shila Dawre shut all these stereotypes down when she became India’s first woman auto driver. Rubbing shoulders with khaki-clad men driving rickshaws, clad in her regular salwaar kameez, she drove around the lanes of Pune, owning them.

She was the first female graduate of Bombay University to be admitted to the Allahabad High Court. In 1889, she became the first woman to read law at Oxford University, and also the first Indian to study at any British university.

With over 300 women footballers in the village, over 11 have successfully represented India and the state across age groups in various tournaments and won laurels.

Surekha, now 51, became India’s first female passenger train driver in 1988. The Indian Railways, a traditionally male-dominated industry, had finally opened its doors to women.

Harshini joined the Mehsana fire station in Gujarat in 2006, the second largest onshore production of the Oil and National Gas Corporation.

She worked as a daily wage labourer in paddy fields, till she turned 105 last year and would earn Rs 200 or 300 which she would share with her son.

She has been selected and funded for the university’s Space Studies Program at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Ireland.

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She is the second Indian woman to occupy a top position at the United Nations after Lakshmi Pandit.