Question: Did anybody try to stop you from being an engineer?

Shruti Turner answered on 12 Mar 2019:

Quite a bit of my extended family did and my mum did for a little bit. Some of my family are quite traditional and so didn’t think engineering was an “appropriate” career choice for a female. My extended family have accepted I am an engineer and are very supportive and interested in what I do now.
My mum thought that she knew what I wanted more that I did and told me I should go into business because she thought I was better at that than engineering, but she helped me along the way to be an engineer anyway. Even now she sometimes tells me what I like and what I’m good at even though I’ve lived away from home for a long time now. It can be irritating but she does it because she wants me to be happy. She just doesn’t know me as well as she thinks sometimes!