Ila Ghose

[1] For her postgraduate training, she travelled to the United Kingdom to work for Glasgow-based company Barr and Stroud.

[1] Once back in India, she worked in an ordnance factory in Dehra Dun, before taking up a lecturer's post at Delhi Polytechnic in 1955.

[1] After her marriage, she moved back to Calcutta where she became a lecturer at the Institute of Jute Technology, followed by the principal of the Women's Polytechnic on Gariahat Road.

[1] In 1967, she attended the second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists held in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

But it hurts when the cases of selection / promotion comes, how the authorities find flimsy excuses not to offer a woman her rightful place as they feel she is not supposed to boss over men.