1.Louise Richardson(B:8 June 1958) is an Irish political
scientist. She is the first ever female to take up the
position of vice chancellor of the Oxford University
in the institution’s 800 year history.
2.Leila Seth was appointed as the first woman judge
of the Delhi High Court. She was born on 20th
October,1930.
3.Kate Mullany(1845-1906) was an immigrant from
Ireland. She was a leading female labour organizer
in the 19th century.She founded at Troy in New York
the Collar Laundry Union, the first bona fide female
union in the country. She was appointed as an assistant
secretary of the National Labour Union. She led a strike
of 200 laundresses protesting menial wages and unsafe
working conditions. Her efforts led to 25 percent wage
increase.
4.Martina Navratilova, (B:18 October 1956) is a retired
Czech and American tennis player and coach.
5.Mary Dixon Kies(B:March 21, 1752-1837) received the
first U.S. patent issued to a woman on May 15,1809 for
boosting the nation’s hat industry. Kies a Connecticut
native invented a process for weaving straw with silk
or thread.
6.Kanti(1100) was the first woman poetess of Kannada.
She adorned the court of Hoysala king Ballal I.Poet
Nagachandra who called himself Abhinava Pampa
was her contemporary in the same court.
The nine angels of banking sector are–
1.Arundhati Bhattacharya (B:March18,1956) is the first
woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India,
in its history of 207 years.She was listed as the 36th
most powerful woman in the world, by the Forbes.
2.Kaku Nakhate (B:1967) is the President and Country
Head of Bank of America, India.
3.Chanda Kocchar(B:November 17, 1961) is the M.D. and
C.E.O. of ICICI Bank.She was listed as 4th in Fortunes
50 most powerful women in the world (2013).
4.Naina Lal Kidwai is the Group General Manager and
Country Head of HSBC Bank. She was the 40th in
Fortunes 50 most powerful women in the world(2013)
5.Kalpana Morparia is the C.E.O. of South Asia and India
operations at J.P.Morgan Chase and Co.(Financial
institution of America).
6.Shikha Sharma(B:1960) is the C.E.O. of AXIS Bank.
(37th in Fortunes 50 most powerful women in the world-2013)
7.Vijayalakshmi Iyer is the chairperson and M.D. of Bank of India.
8.Shubhalakshmi is the President and M.D. of Allahabad Bank.
9.Archana Bhargava is the President and M.D. of United Bank
of India.
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