This was a very rare decision for women in those days, particularly those at such a high professional level.
[6] She was a colonel and deputy commander of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps by 1990.
[6] Kale was then promoted to major-general in 1994 and became the first Nigerian woman to achieve that rank.
[9] Aderonke was married to Oladele Kale, a preventive and social medicine professor.
She provided land for the founding of the Bodija-Ashi Baptist Church in Ibadan.