10 women - 10 fields- on top

Women on top

Women is not only a mother, a daughter or a wife she is a lot more than that. Proving women is nowhere lesser than men here are 10 different women from 10 different fields showing women power.

Showing world women is not only beautiful but is also strong, intelligent, independent and an achiever. 

Shereen Bhan

Shereen Bhan (born 20 August 1976) is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18. She is from a Kashmiri Hindu family. Bhan graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in Philosophy and a master's in Communication Studies from the University of Pune, with film and television as her area of specialization. In April 2005, she was awarded the FICCI Woman of the Year award. Women’s magazine Femina included her among the 20 Beautiful Faces of the year in its September 2005 issue. She was featured on the cover of Verve magazine's December 2008 issue^. Shereen figured among the 50 most Beautiful Women in the Vogue October 2008 issue. In 2009, the World Economic Forum named her as one of the Young Global Leaders of 2009.

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra ( born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer, film producer, philanthropist, and the winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. One of India's highest-paid and most popular celebrities. In 2016, the Government of India honored her with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, and Time magazine named her one of the world. Among Chopra's film awards are a National Film Award for Best Actress for Fashion (2008)^. In 2016, she received the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Actress In A New TV Series" for Quantico, making her the first South Asian actress to win a People's Choice Award.

Sonali Swami

She sports a six-pack and could easily give any man, with a six-pack, a run for his money. Mother of two, 38-year-old Sonali Swami, Bangalore’s only woman fitness model’s determination, commitment and discipline got her a top slot at the ‘Fit Factor’ competition held at ‘Body Power India 2014’ in Mumbai. She is a sponsored athlete of optimum nutrition (one of world’s biggest supplement company) and Adidas. This year (2016) she won the bronze in Asian bodybuilding championship held in Bhutan.

Ekta Kapoor

Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the Joint Managing Director and Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company. In 2012 she was awarded by Asia's Social Empowerment Award- Freedom Through Education.

Kirthiga Reddy

Kirthiga Reddy, is an Indian businesswoman and Managing Director (CEO) at Facebook India. She has recently said that she is stepping down from her position of CEO Facebook India, and is now moving to America to take on a global role at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. 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.

Shikha Sharma

Mrs. Shikha Sharma (born November 19, 1958) is the Managing Director & CEO of Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank in India. Mrs. Sharma joined Axis Bank in 2009 and as a leader adept at managing change, she has focused on transforming Axis Bank into a Bank with strengths across a wide range of Corporate and Retail Banking products. At Axis Bank, she has focused on strengthening its retail lending franchise, enlarged its investment banking & advisory capabilities and developed a comprehensive portfolio of products in the payments space. Under Mrs. Sharma’s leadership, Axis Bank has received many awards notably, 'Bank of the Year in India' for the year 2014 by The Banker Magazine, Financial Times. The Bank was conferred the Certificate of Recognition for excellence in Corporate Governance by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), for the year 2015. The Bank was ranked as the 'Most Trusted Private Sector Bank' second year in a row - 'Most Trusted Brand Survey', conducted by Brand Equity, Economic Times.^[12] Axis Bank was ranked No 1 company to work for in the BFSI sector - 'The Best Companies to Work for' survey by Business Today in 2013. As an acknowledgement of her efforts, Harvard Business School published a case study on Managing Change at Axis Bank in 2013.

The Bank's CSR arm, Axis Bank Foundation, won the title of ‘Outstanding Corporate Foundation’ as part of the Forbes India Philanthropy Awards 2014. Axis Bank Foundation has set a target of providing sustainable livelihood to one million households by 2017.

 Awards she received are:

• 'Banker of the Year' for 2014-15 by Business Standard
• AIMA - JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award for the Year 2014
• 'India's Best Woman CEO' by Business Today- 2013
• 'Transformational Business Leader of the Year’ at AIMA’s Managing India Awards – 2012
• Woman Leader of the year’ at Bloomberg - UTV Financial Leadership Awards – 2012^[
• Businessworld’s Banker of the Year Award - 2012
• Forbes List of Asia’s 50 Power Business Women - 2012
• Indian Express Most Powerful Indians – 2012
• India Today Power List of 25 Most Influential Women - 2012
• Finance Asia’s Top 20 Women in Finance - 2011
• Business Today ‘Hall of Fame' – 2011
• Fortune Global and India list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business – 2011
• Businesswoman of the Year at the Economic Times Awards – 2008
• Entrepreneur of the Year – Manager at the E&Y Entrepreneur Awards - 2007
• Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year, CNBC TV 18’s Business Leader Awards

Alisha Abdullah

Alisha Abdullah (born July 24, 1989) is India's first female national racing champion. Awards she received are:

• JK Tyre National Super-bike Racing Championship - 2009, Finished 3rd overall in the national championship amongst 15 men
• National Road Racing Championship UCAL - 2008, Group A stroke up to 750 cc Novice Round 4, 3rd Place
• Rotary’s Young Achiever Award - 2008, Honored with Rotary’s Young Achiever Award. The Rotary Club of Madras Northwest presented the award applauding her trail-blazing achievements in car and bike racing.
• National Road Racing Championship UCAL - 2006, Group D4 stroke 80 cc to 110 cc Novice Round 5th Round, 3rd Place
• National Road Racing Championship UCAL - 2006, Group D4 stroke 80 cc to 110 cc Novice Round 4th Round, 3rd Place
• National Road Racing Championship UCAL - 2006, Group D4 stroke 80 cc to 110 cc Novice 3rd Round, 2nd Place

Mallika Srinivasan

Mallika Srinivasan is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is on the Board of AGCO Corporation - United States, Tata Steel Limited and Tata Global Beverages Limited. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, the Governing Board (Rural Technology And Business Incubator of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and the Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy, etc.

She has received several accolades and awards in recent years. In 2011, she was voted Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young; awarded the Woman Leader of the Year award by Forbes India; recognized by Forbes Asia as one of the Top 50 Asian Power Businesswomen, ranked second among India’s Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India and named among the six Most Powerful Women of India Inc. by Business Today, while the Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) honored her with the ABLF Woman of Power Award. NDTV Profit, India’s leading business television channel, accorded her the honor of Business Thought Leader of the Year 2012 Award, at the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards.

Sakshi Malik

Sakshi Malik (born 3 September 1992) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics and the fourth female Olympic medalist from the country. Malik had previously won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and the bronze medal at the 2015 Asian Wrestling Championships in Doha. Awards she received:

• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2016) - highest sporting honor of India
• Multiple cash prizes totaling over ₹5.7 crore (US$850,000) from the Indian Railways, the Indian Olympic Association, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Government of Delhi, various state governments, including Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, from private bodies such as the JSW Group and from political groups including the Indian National Lok Dal.

Nita Ambani

Nita Ambani (born 1 November 1963) is the chairperson and founder of Reliance Foundation and a non-executive director of Reliance Industries.  She is also an art collector and owner of Mumbai Indians. She has also led the ‘Education for All’ (EFA) initiative as part of Mumbai Indians’ way of giving back to society. EFA has reached over 70,000 underprivileged children and created awareness for education using various media and digital platforms. Ambani has received numerous honors including a place in the 2016 edition of both the most influential women business leaders in Asia list by Forbes and the fifty high and mighty Indians list by India Today. She is the first Indian woman to become member of IOC (International Olympic Committee).