A Conversation with Damaynati (Rani) Gupta

Let's Talk with Che Marville

In today's episode, Che had a very extraordinary guest, Damayanti (Rani) Gupta; she was the first female engineer with an advanced degree to be hired at the Ford Motor Company In Detroit in 1967. She was the first female engineer student at her university that she attended; when her friends were going to secretarial school and preparing for marriage, she rode her bike one and a half miles to use the restroom because there was no bathroom for females students because they had no female engineering students. She was born in 1942 in a small village in India, and overnight her family became refugees when India was divided into two countries in 1947. Rani shares what drove her to succeed and how her mother and grandmother's aspiration for her to be an educated woman was more significant than their ambition for her dowery. Her mother and grandmother encouraged her from a very young age to put her education first. When she was 13 years old, she heard the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, speak in an open field about the importance of education and the need for women engineers. That day changed her life and begun her path to America. Take a listen to the story of this delightful modern-day warrior, driven by vision and unwavering courage. Please subscribe to Let's Talk, share the show and send us your feedback.

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