women leadership

11 Geeta phogat Geeta Phogat  was born on 15 December 1988 is a   freestyle wrestler  who won India's first ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. She is also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the  Olympic Summer Games . She comes from Balali village in  Bhiwani district ,  Haryana . Her father  Mahavir Singh Phogat , a former wrestler himself and a   Dronacharya Award  recipient, is also her coach. Phogat won the Gold medal at the   Commonwealth Wrestling Championship  held   n  Jalandhar ,  Punjab  between 19 and 21 December 2009. She won India’s first ever gold medal in women’s wrestling at the  Commonwealth Games  held in  New Delhi , beating Emily Bensted from  Australia  in the gold medal match with a score of 1-0, 7-0. Phogat won a gold medal in the Wrestling FILA ...

  10. Mithali Dorai Raj     Mithali Dorai Raj  was born on 3 December 1982. She is an Indian cricketer and the captain of the Indian Women's cricket team in Tests and ODI.  Often regarded as one of the greatest cricketing batters to have ever played the game, she is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 6,000-run mark in ODIs. She is the first player to score 7 consecutive 50s in ODIs. Mithali is the first captain (men or women) to lead India to an ICC ODI World Cup final twice; in  2005  and  2017 . Raj has played both Test and One Day International cricket for India's women's cricket team.  She was named among the probable’s in the  1997 women’s cricket world cup  when she was just 14 but couldn't make it to the final squad.  She made her One Day International debut in 1999 against Ir...

9. Arundhati Bhattacharya   Arundhati Bhattacharya  is an  Indian   banker  and former Chairman of the  State Bank of India . She is the first woman to be the Chairman of  State Bank of India  . In 2016, she was listed as the  25th most powerful woman in the world  by  Forbes . Bhattacharya joined SBI in September 1977. She is the first woman to lead an India-based  Fortune India 500  company. Initially, she joined SBI in 1977 as a Probationary Officer at the age of 22 years. She has held several positions during her 36-year career with the bank including working in foreign exchange, treasury, retail operations, human resources and investment banking. This included positions like the chief executive of the bank's merchant banking arm- State Bank of India Capital Markets; chief general manager in charge of new projects. She has also ser...

8 KIRAN BEDI Kiran Bedi  was born 9 June 1949 is a retired  Indian Police Service  officer, social activist, former  tennis  player and politician who is the current  Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry . She is the first woman to join the  Indian Police Service  (IPS). She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General,  Development. After joining IPS, Bedi served    in  Delhi ,  Goa ,  Chandigarh  and   Mizoram . She started her career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Chanakyapuri area of Delhi, and won the  President's Police Medal  in 1979. Next, she moved to  West Delhi , where she brought a reduction in crimes against women. Subsequently, as a  traffic police  officer, she oversaw traffic arrangements for the  1982 Asian Games  in Delh...

7 PRATIBHA PATIL Pratibha Devising Patil  was born on 19 December 1934 is an Indian politician who served as the 12 th president of India from 2007 to 2012. A member of the Indian national congress, Patil is the only women to hold the office. She previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007. The  BBC   has described Patil's political career prior to assuming presidential office as "long and largely low-key". In 1962, at the age of 27, she was elected to the  Maharashtra legislative assembly  for the  Jalgaon Constituency .  Thereafter she won in the  Muktainagar (formerly Edlabad) constituency on four consecutive occasions between 1967 and 1985, before becoming a  Member of Parliament  in the Rajya Sabha between 1985 and 1990. In the  1991 election  for the  10 TH Lok Sabha she was elected as a Member of Parliament representing the ...

    6.  MARY KOM Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte was on born 24 November 1982 and better known as  Mary Kom . She is an  INDIAN OLYMPIC  boxer hailing from the   Kom  tribe in  Manipur . She is a five-time  WORLD AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPION and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Nicknamed "Magnificent Mary", she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal. She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category. She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea. On 26 April 2016, Kom was nominated by the  President of India  as a member of the  RAJYA SABHA , the upper house of the   INDIAN PARLIAMENT in March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Gove...

  5 Manushi Chhillar     Manushi Chhillar  (born 14 May 1997) is an Indian model and the winner of the MISS WORLD 2017  pageant. She represented the state of Haryana at the  FEMINA MISS INDIA 2017 pageant , which she won. Chhillar is the sixth Indian woman to win the MISS WORLD  pageant. Chhillar was born in  Rohtak ,  Haryana Her father, Dr. Mitra Basu Chhillar, is a scientist at Defence RESEARCHAND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZTION  (DRDO) while her mother, Dr. Neelam Chhillar, is an associate professor and department head of  Neurochemistry  at the Institute of human behavior and Allied sciences As Miss World 2017, Chhillar returned to India on 26 November, where she was greeted by a large crowd. ]  She later was one of the celebrity speakers at the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in  Hyderabad .  Chhillar was announced as brand ambassador for Anemia Free Haryana, and her Beauty wit...