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The First Woman…
1. The first woman to compose a №1 country music hit.
Jenny Lou Carson
2. The first woman living HIV-positive kidney donor in the US
Nina Martinez
3. The first woman to obtain a pilot’s license.
Raymonde de Laroche
4. The First female pilot to fly alone across the Pacific Ocean.
Betty Miller
5. The first Saudi woman who became a commercial airline pilot.
Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi
6. The first woman to drive around the world.
Aloha Wanderwell
7. The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in the modern era.
Stefania Wolicka-Arnd
8. The first woman to operate as US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
9. The first woman publisher of a major United States newspaper, The Washington Post.
Katharine Graham
10. The first woman to achieve the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Marie Curie
11. The first woman to achieve the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Elinor Ostrom
12. The first appointed female prime minister of a sovereign country (Srilanka).
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
13. The first woman prime minister of a present-day G20 country.
Indira Gandhi
14. The first female prime minister in Israel, Middle East.
Golda Meir
15. The first woman to become an official female motorcycle racer in the United States by obtaining a license.
Mary McGee
16. The first American woman to achieve three gold medals in the Rome Olympics.
Rome Olympics
17. The first woman to become the first female FIFA Executive Committee member.
Lydia Nsekera
18. The first woman to direct the Board of Directors for Little League.
Davie Jane Gilmour
19. The first woman authorized as vice president of the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Tracey Gaudry
20. The first woman to complete the “Peak to Heat Double”.
Denise Fejtek
21. The first and fastest woman to drag a double-crossing of the Auau Channel in Hawaii.
Meredith Novack
22. The first woman to achieve the World Crazy Golf Championship.
Olivia Prokopova
23. The first woman to receive the first U.S. patent awarded to a woman, for a kind of cotton thread.
Hannah Slater
24. The first and foremost woman to attempt a solo mission in space.
Valentina Tereshkova
25. The first woman seen on the United States Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O’Connor
26. The first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history.
Benazir Bhutto
27. Canada’s first woman who became Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Beverley McLachlin
28. The first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Wangari Maathai
29. The first woman to be given the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Zaha Hadid
30. The first woman to be authorized poet laureate of Great Britain.
Carol Ann Duffy
31. The first woman who was a computer programmer in history.
Ada Lovelace
32. The first woman who is considered the first pacifist in history.
Bertha von Suttner
33. The first woman to become a female Olympic champion in an individual event.
Charlote Cooper
34. The first woman achieving an Oscar to the best director.
KATHRYN BIGELOW
35. The first woman to travel the Atlantic in a solo flight.
Amelia Earhart
36. The first woman to become the first Prime Minister in the world.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
37. The first woman to pass over the Atlantic in an airplane.
Amelia Earhart
38. The first woman who became a Fortune 500 CEO.
Katharine Graham
39. The first female to become Secretary of State.
Madeleine Albright
40. The first woman and first frankly gay coach in Super Bowl history.
Katie Sowers
