Of course, this profile has to talk about how she "does the tightrope walk between home and career". Why can't she be admired simply for her professional achievement?
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Where is the human interest in just focusing on professional achievements? Plus, it does show the guilt a working woman feels about not being there to take care of an unwell son.
When S. Chandrasekhar won the Nobel prize, I remember reading an article that talked about how he made "perfectly round dosas"...I liked that article. To my young mind, it helped to de-glamorize Nobel laureates and put them in an everyday context..
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Where is the human interest in just focusing on professional achievements? Plus, it does show the guilt a working woman feels about not being there to take care of an unwell son.
When S. Chandrasekhar won the Nobel prize, I remember reading an article that talked about how he made "perfectly round dosas"...I liked that article. To my young mind, it helped to de-glamorize Nobel laureates and put them in an everyday context..
Yeah, of course. Because there's not enough human-interest angle in the "woman rises in a male-dominated tech organization" story.
//Chandrasekhar making perfectly round dosas glamorizes him even more, I think :)
You are right. It makes him look glamorous in a human way, and less of a demigod..
You see, I imagine him standing over the dosa tava reading Astrophysics journals :)
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