In Greek mythology, Hesiod effectively presents Pandora as the first woman.
Works and Days describes Pandora as a new kind of human figure created by the gods after Prometheus’s theft of fire. The story links her arrival to Zeus’s punishment of both Prometheus and humanity. Hesiod’s Theogony also refers to the creation of woman in the same broad mythic framework.
Calling Pandora the first woman is different from calling her the first goddess. She is made by divine craftsmen and receives divine gifts, but she is not one of the immortal Olympian deities. Later retellings often simplify those distinctions.
The myth is also not a complete scientific or historical account of human origins. It is a poetic explanation of why hardship, labor, and reproduction characterize human life in Hesiod’s worldview.