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In reply to the discussion: Do fathers still expect to be asked permission to marry their daughter? Is this a sexist tradition? [View all]Hekate
(90,673 posts)She and her first husband graduated from UCBerkeley as computer engineers in the early 1970s.
Your daughter is going into Mechanical Engineering with the offer of a good job immediately upon graduation, and women are still a rare commodity in those fields. You must be incredibly proud of her.
I know my opinion means diddly squat, but if she were my daughter I would urge her to take this job. Oh yeah, separate finances at least until the student debt is paid -- but young people don't think like that, so I'd just concentrate on please, please taking the job offer for at least a couple of years to build her adult resume and then if hubby still is dissatisfied with prospects in that region she and he can move on. It may not be as easy as she thinks for her as a woman to replicate that first big chance.
Eh, but young love is what it is, and this old lady wishes the young couple luck and love.