Lumen Summer 2018 - Flipbook - Page 15
The University of Adelaide alumna advocates
women’s rights to achieve professional success
while also having a family.
“A woman can manage both as long as she
has her family’s support,” said Rupa.
“If I didn’t have my husband’s support, it would
have been harder for me to complete my PhD
on time as I gave birth to our first child during
my candidacy and had to manage the special
needs of a new born.”
“It frustrates me that
indigenous Bangladeshi
men managed to get PhDs
decades ago but it’s taken
until 2017 for a woman to do
the same.”
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