1.   Dame Janet Fookes, who could become the Tory nominee for the first woman Speaker.

2.   Ferraro was the first woman to be nominated for the job of vice president.

3.   I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars.

4.   Mariama was the first woman in the village to stand up against the traditional practice and refused to have her daughters mutilated.

5.   Ms Takahashi was the first Japanese woman ever to be appointed ambassador to a foreign country.

6.   Newsweek has a new Washington bureau chief, the first woman ever to serve in that post.

7.   Rebecca Stephens was the first British woman to climb Mount Everest.

8.   She became the first woman to enter the school but withdrew after a few days because of stress.

9.   She became the first woman to lead the country.