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Achievement

Name

First woman President of UN General Assembly

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953)

First woman President of a country

Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)

First woman Prime Minister of a country

Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)

First woman Prime Minister of England

Margaret Thatcher

First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

First woman cosmonaut in space

Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)

First woman space tourist

Anousheh Ansari (Irani American)

First woman Vice President of the United States

Kamala Harris

First woman to set foot on the North Pole

Ann Bancroft (USA)

First woman to reach Antarctica

Caroline Michaelson

First woman to climb Mount Everest

Junko Tabei (Japan)

First woman in the world to cross the Strait of Gibraltar

Sophie Psilolignou (Greek)

First woman to chair the US Central Bank 'Federal Reserve'

Janet Yellen

First UN Deputy Secretary-General

Louise Frechette (Canada)

First female amputee to climb Mount Everest

Arunima Sinha

First woman CFO and MD of World Bank

Anshula Kant

First female amputee to climb Mount Vinson

Arunima Sinha

First woman chief economist for IMF

Gita Gopinath

First female ICC match referee

GS Lakshmi

First astronauts to complete a historic all-female spacewalk

Christina Koch and Jessica Meir