Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
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Re: Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
#2Is this headline subtly sexist..?
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#3I’d think an engineer and surgeon could hire a housemaid to help out with the cooking. In the USA, it’d be a household income of > $600k.
I saw a documentary a few years ago. The woman cooked breakfast, then after the husband left, immediately started lunch. Brought lunch to the husband in a stacked lunch-pail, them immediately started with dinner.
They cooked all day; crazy. Of course Indian food takes a long time to make well. I don’t know how they do it in restaurants. It takes me three hours.
Re: Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
#4Is this headline subtly sexist..?
The subject matter is about a woman managing a high intensity career and taking care of a large family, so perhaps not. It's worth thinking about though.
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#5wow what a champ. love her!
Re: Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
#6I’d think an engineer and surgeon could hire a housemaid to help out with the cooking. In the USA, it’d be a household income of > $600k. I saw a documentary a few years ago. The woman cooked breakfast, then after the husband left, immediately started lunch. Brought lunch to the husband in a stacked lunch-pail, them immediately started with dinner. They cooked all day; crazy. Of course Indian food takes a long time t…
I dont know why you are down voted but this is true. They should be easily able to afford a cook & a maid. Doctors earn well in India. People with less prestigious and less salary have cooks and maids. My guess is this is a narrative.
I am not saying she didnt have two jobs (house work & office work), but the article paints a slightly tainted picture. It is also possible that this family did not choose to have a cook, which is also not uncommon. Especially if they are of certain cultural groups, they have strict rules on such things.
regardless, you have a good point. its the choice they made and it is impressive to pull this off
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#7I’d think an engineer and surgeon could hire a housemaid to help out with the cooking. In the USA, it’d be a household income of > $600k. I saw a documentary a few years ago. The woman cooked breakfast, then after the husband left, immediately started lunch. Brought lunch to the husband in a stacked lunch-pail, them immediately started with dinner. They cooked all day; crazy. Of course Indian food takes a long time t…
"Could financially" doesn't necessarily mean it's socially acceptable.
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#8Is this headline subtly sexist..?
It's a headline about sexism.
Sometimes, erring in the direction of political correctness interferes with speaking the truth about the world as it currently exists.
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#9There's an excellent podcast by Kalki - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jv110. The only part that irked me was how Kalki mispronounced the lady's name. I would hope that there would be some basic research to get the name of the protagonist right.
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#10I’d think an engineer and surgeon could hire a housemaid to help out with the cooking. In the USA, it’d be a household income of > $600k. I saw a documentary a few years ago. The woman cooked breakfast, then after the husband left, immediately started lunch. Brought lunch to the husband in a stacked lunch-pail, them immediately started with dinner. They cooked all day; crazy. Of course Indian food takes a long time t…
In the USA, parents don't typically arrange an adult daughter's marriage without asking her what she thinks either. (She also was living with extended family, a thing Americans tend to not do either. In America, we default to the nuclear family. When it began with saying she was cooking for 8 people, I assumed she had many children. Not so.)
Also, she liked to cook and if you are a woman and have a career, doing things like cooking is a way to bond with family. If you hire a cook, a maid and a nanny, you spend vastly less time with your children.
I was a full time mom for years. I can't imagine having kids and then just hiring other people to do everything for them. If you want nothing to do with your kids, I feel like you shouldn't intentionally have kids. (Though, unlike some people, I realize that not all children are planned. So sometimes people are just coping as best they can with what life handed them.)