> Presumably she had some control over her fecundity? She could also, partner with someone willing to cook meals? I wish those things could be taken for grante

> Presumably she had some control over her fecundity? She could also, partner with someone willing to cook meals? I wish those things could be taken for granted, but... Fecundity: Not saying this is true for her in particular, but I suspect the woman sometimes has remarkably little say in birth control (think husbands refusing to wear a condom, doctors and pharmacists refusing to supply birth control pills, etc) or even frequency of sex (from the belief that a wife is not doing her marital duties if she refuses sex, to refusing to prosecute even violent outright rape when she does). Partner: the article says her marriage was arranged (which I understand to be common), so I wouldn't assume she had much say in it at all: > A year after she began working at Isro, her parents arranged her marriage to orthopaedic surgeon Dr Manjunath Basavalingappa - which meant that she suddenly had a household to run. By the way, the article also gives a reason her husband doesn't help out with household duties (besides societal expectations that she'd do it all)... > Dr Basavalingappa explains that as a doctor, his working day often stretches up to 18 hours, while his wife mostly worked office hours. Dakshayani seems satisfied with this explanation. ...which I find insane by itself, but it's not limited to India. I just googled "medical mistakes long shift" and found a NIH study...which defined an extended-duration shift as at least 24 hours. [1] Unsurprisingly, it found that doctors screw up less when they don't do that, and talk about setting the bar low...I'd expect >12 hours to be considered extended-duration, perhaps even 8. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705824/