First Woman from World

Many women have started the many things first time. Many countries in the world have not    thought about that. Let’s see some brave and successful woman.

·         Margaret Thacher was the fist woman who became the prime Minister of England

·         Jeannette Rankin was the First woman who enrolled in Congress in 1917

·         Florence E. Allen was the first woman who elected as U.S. woman judge in 1920

·         Ruth Bryan Owen was the First woman ambassador to a foreign country for the United States in Denmark and Iceland, 1933.

·         Hattie Wyatt Caraway: was the First woman elected in U.S. Senate Arkansas in 1932

·         Sandra Day O’Connor was the First woman justice of the U.S. Supreme Court In 1981

·         Penny Harrington was the First woman police chief of a city Portland Oregon in 1985

·         Sheila Widnall was the First woman Secretary in Air Force in 1993

·         Nancy Pelosi was the First woman to become Speaker of the House in 2007

·         Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) was the fist woman who became the prime minister of any Muslim country.

·         Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in history to win the best director award at the Oscar in 2008.

·         Toni Morrison was the First African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

·         Hattie McDaniel was the First African-American woman who won the Oscar for best supporting actress for Gone with the wind in 1940.

·         Sheila Nevins (HBO President and Documentary Producer) who won maximum Oscar award (9 Oscars)

·         Dorothy Dandridge was the First African-American who nominated for Best Actress for Carmen Jones in 1954

·         Katharine Hepburn won the most Best Actress Oscar with four out of 12 nomination

·         Ella Fitzgerald was the First African-American woman who won the Grammy Award in 1958

·         Vanessa Williams was the First African-American who became the Miss America in New York in 1984.

·         Oprah Winfrey was the First African-American woman who became the TV host for The Oprah Winfrey show in 1986.

·         Mary Katherine Goddard was the First woman who became postmaster in 1775

·         Catherine Brewer was the First woman to receive a bachelor’s degree in Wesleyan College in 1840.

·         Mary Kies was the First woman who receives a patent for a technique in weaving straw & silk together in 1809.

·         Kate Gleason was the First woman who became the president of a national bank in USA 1917.

·         Lettie Pate Whitehead was the First American woman to serve as director of a Coca Cola company in 1934.

·         Muriel Siebert was the First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967

·         Katherine Graham was the First woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 1972

·         Anne Bradstreet was the First woman writer who published the book in 1678

·         Ann Franklin was the First U.S. woman who became the newspaper editor in 1762

·         Phillis Wheatle was the: First African-American published poet in 1773

·         Ellen Swallow Richards was the First woman professional chemist in 1873

·         Louise Bethune was the First American woman who became architect in 1881

·         Alice Guy Blache was the First American woman who became film director in 1896

·         Anna May Wong was the First Asian-American movie star in Bits of Life, 1921 and host of own network TV series in The Gallery of Madame Liu song 1951

·         Althea Gibson was the First African-American tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon in 1967.

·         Sally Ride was the First American woman who move in orbit round the earth in 1983

·         S.Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka) was the fist woman who became the prime minister of a country

·         Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) was the fist woman who became the cosmonaut in space

·         Junko Tabei (Japan) was the fist woman who climb Mount Everest

·         Smt.Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the fist woman became the President of UN general Assembly in 1953.

·         Elena Cornaro (Venetian family) was the first graduate woman who graduated in Philosophy in 1678.

·         Mary Jane Patterson was the First African-American to receive a B.A. Degree from Oberlin College in 1862.

·         Elizabeth Blackwell was the First woman to receive a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in 1849.

·         Ada Kepley was the First woman to graduate from an accredited law school in 1870

·         Helen Magill White was the First woman to receive a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1877

·         Drew Gilpin Faust was the First woman President of Harvard University in 2007

·         Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaik was the first female in the world who became prime minister of Sri Lanka in 1960.

·         Caroline Michaelson was the fist woman to reach Antarctica

·         Maria Estela Peron was the fist woman who became the President of a country in Argentina

·         Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman in the world to receive a pilot license in 1910

·         Sweden's Kiki Haakonson, was the first female who win the first Miss World title in 1951

·         Ms. Fran was the fist woman who reach the North Pole