Amidst special attention to the status of women given in our country, the scenario is fortunately changing for them. Earlier, they did not enjoy so much freedom as now and are excelling in every field. In modern India, women have held high offices including that of the President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Leader of the Opposition, Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors, and are continuing to do so. They are managing top organization in India and it shows that how well they can lead them. Going hand in hand, there is no profession now women are not doing these days. Given the number of opportunities are getting currently; they have made full use of it. Here are some women who have made a difference.

 Arundhati Bhattacharya

58 year old Arundhati Bhattacharya is the first woman chairperson of State Bank of India, the leading public sector bank of India. In 2015, she was named the 30th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Chitra Ramkrishna

1963-born Chitra Ramakrishna is the first woman Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India’s leading stock exchange National Stock Exchange. Other positions in NSE in her career include Joint managing director, Head of Listing and Deputy managing director, and director, Member of Derivatives Panel of SEBI and Member of Executive Committee at National Securities Depository Ltd.

Tessy Thomas

She has been the woman face of India’s missile projects. 1963-born Tessy Thomas from Kerala is a scientist at Defence Research and Development Organization, and is the Project Director for Agni-VI missile which was successfully tested in 2011. Often referred to as the Missile Woman of India, Tessy is the first woman scientist to lead a missile project in India. She was the associate project director of Agni-III, and Project Director of Agni-V.

Kirthiga Reddy

Kirthiga Reddy is the Managing Director (CEO) at Facebook India. She has the distinction of being the first employee of the social media giant in India and has been one of the leading forces behind the company’s expansive growth in the country. In 2011, she became Fortune India’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women and also has been placed among India’s 25 most influential women.

Chanda Kochhar 

Chanda Kochhar is the MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, India’s largest private bank, and the second largest bank in the country. The 53 year old heads the bank’s Corporate Centre. The woman from Jodhpur is ranked world’s 43rd most powerful woman by Forbes, and has led ICICI to win several recognitions. Kochhar has also consistently figured in Fortune’s list of “Most Powerful Women in Business” since 2005. In 2009, she debuted at number 20 in the Forbes “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list”, and climbed to the 10th spot in 2010.

Medha Patkar

Social activist and environmentalist Medha Patkar is the founder member of Narmada Bachao Andolan, where she protested and was National Convener of National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), an alliance of progressive people’s organizations. She was a representative to the World Commission on Dams, to research the environmental, social and economic impacts of the development of large dams globally.

 Neelam Dhawan

Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard India. She has countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HP’s Services, Personal Systems and Imaging & Printing businesses. With a portfolio that extends to offshore activities, BPO, Software Engineering, Research and IT Services, Neelam is focused on shaping the company’s overall business agenda and leading its strategy and corporate development efforts to make HP the most admired company in India.

Sumitra Mahajan

Sumitra Mahajan is an Indian politician who has been Speaker of the Lok Sabha since 2014.  She is the second woman after Meira Kumar to be elected as Lok Sabha Speaker. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2014, she won election to the Lok Sabha for the eighth time, one of three members of the 16th Lok Sabha to do so, and is currently the longest-serving woman member. She has represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh since 1989.

Tanya Dubash

Tanya Arvind Dubash is the Executive Director and Chief Brand Officer at the Godrej Group. She is currently on the Boards of Godrej Industries Limited, Godrej Consumer Products Limited, Godrej Agrovet Limited and is the Chairperson of Godrej Nature’s Basket. She is also a board member of the Bhartiya Mahila Bank and a Trustee of Brown University.

Suneeta Reddy

Suneeta Reddy is the Managing Director of the Apollo Group, the leading private hospital chain in India. Suneeta now steers the corporate strategy, corporate finance, funding and investments and will be leveraging M&As to achieve objectives of an accelerated pace of growth and in optimizing profitability