As she told me in a January 17th interview, Sankar attended an all-girls high school in India and was then admitted to one of its top engineering programs IIT Kanpur, India.
Esther Peterson, the top-ranking woman in the Kennedy administration, asked an auditorium full of working-class high school girls in Los Angeles how many expected to have a "home and kids and a family, " and the room was full of waving hands.