North India's first woman auto-rickshaw driver

Sunita Choudhary - North India's first auto-rickshaw driver - puts on her badge as she prepares to leave for work from her house in South Delhi on 7th March, 2018. She is also among the first 10 women drivers to be trained by the Institute of Driving Training and Research.Sunita Choudhary - North India's first woman auto-rickshaw has been driving the streets of Delhi since 2004, after facing major difficulties to make a mark for herself in the male-dominated profession. With bureaucratic troubles in attaining a commercial auto-rickshaw driver's license, her journey entails of hardships of child marriage, physical abuse by her husband and in-laws, sexual harrasment and hostility from her male colleagues. In her struggle in the male-dominated profession, she says, "I had no other option but to fight back." (Photo by Sahiba Chawdhary/NurPhoto via Getty Images)