Timeline of women's achievements in India
The steady change in the position of women can be highlighted by looking at what has been achieved by women in the country: 1848: Savitribai Phule , along with her husband Jyotirao Phule , opened a school for girls in Pune, India. Savitribai Phule became the first woman teacher in India. 1879: John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune established the Bethune School in 1849, which developed into the Bethune College in 1879, thus becoming the first women's college in India. 1883: Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly became the first female graduates of India and the British Empire . 1886: Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first women from India to be trained in Western medicine . 1898: Sister Nivedita Girls' School was inaugurated 1905: Suzanne RD Tata becomes the first Indian woman to drive a car. 1916: The first women's university, SNDT Women's University , ...