Here are the list of all the women who achieved or earned the Grandmaster title:
| Name | Country | Date | Age | Earned | World Champion | Peak Rating |
Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nona Gaprindashvili |  Georgia |
1978 | 37 | WCC | 1962–1978 | ?? | First female grandmaster | ||
| Maia Chiburdanidze | Georgia |
1984 | 23 | WCC | 1978–1991 | 2550 | |||
| Susan Polgar | Hungary United States |
1991 | 22 | norms | 1996–1999 | 2577 | First to be awarded the title traditionally | ||
| Judit Polgár | Hungary |
1991 | 15 | norms | – | 2735 | Youngest grandmaster ever at the time | ||
| Xie Jun | China |
1991 | 21 | WCC | 1991–1996,1999–2001 | 2574 | |||
| Pia Cramling | Sweden |
1992 | 29 | norms | – | 2550 | |||
| Zhu Chen | China Qatar |
2001 | 25 | norms | 2001–2004 | 2548 | |||
| Koneru Humpy | India |
2002 | 15 | norms | – | 2622 | |||
| Antoaneta Stefanova | Bulgaria |
2003 | 25 | norms | 2004–2006 | 2560 | |||
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | Russia |
2004 | 20 | EWC | 2008–current | 2540 | |||
| Peng Zhaoqin | China Netherlands |
2004 | 36 | EWC | – | 2472 | |||
| Hoang Thanh Trang | Vietnam Hungary |
2007 | 27 | norms | – | 2501 | |||
| Kateryna Lahno | Ukraine |
2007 | 17 | norms | – | 2509 | |||
| Xu Yuhua | China |
2007 | 30 | WCC | 2006–2008 | 2517 | |||
| Marie Sebag | France |
2008 | 21 | norms | – | 2533 | |||
| Zhao Xue | China |
2008 | 23 | norms | – | 2544 | |||
| Hou Yifan | China |
2008 | 14 | norms | – | 2590 | Youngest ever female grandmaster | ||
| Nana Dzagnidze | Georgia |
2008 | 21 | norms | – | 2536 | |||
| Monika Soćko | Poland |
2008 | 30 | norms | – | 2505 | |||
| Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant | Georgia Scotland |
2009 | 40 | norms | – | 2506 | |||
| Tatiana Kosintseva | Russia |
2009 | 23 | norms | – | 2539 |
Source: Wiki
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
How can one become a GM for winning the European Women’s Championship? What kind of nonsense is this? Has this outrageous rule been changed?
This isn’t so much a history of women’s chess as it is the pursuit of the GM title by women in the modern era. Any history of women’s chess should at least include Vera Menchik.
They should stop cheapen the GM title. There should be no automatic title for winning the EWC.
Perhaps you could indicate the source of data on this list.
The FIDE website has Humpy Koneru becoming a GM in January 2003 AFTER Antoaneta Stefanova in Ocober 2002.
She did put the source. If you click on the title “the history of women’s chess”, it will take you there.