Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Indian-American engineer and businesswoman
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Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Naaz Joshi
Naaz Joshi is India’s first transgender model and an international beauty queen, as well as a transgender rights activist
Prem Mathur
The first woman to be a commercial pilot in India
Ramnie Dinat
South African anti-apartheid activist
Indira Goswami
Goswami pioneered feminist Assamese literature by raising awareness of issues faced by the marginalized.
Dr Kadambini Ganguly
The first practicing female doctor in South East Asia
Dr Kamala Sohonie
The first Indian woman to receive a PhD in science, she worked to change the lives of millions of people across India with her nutrition research
Mai Bhago
The first known woman in Sikh history to fight in a war.
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.