Indira Nooyi

The following is from Indira Nooyi's biography.
"Friends in the United States convinced her that she should apply for admission, and Nooyi mailed her application off without really thinking it would be successful. She was not only admitted but was also offered financial aid. Despite societal pressures, Nooyi's parents got on board with her plans. "It was unheard of for a good, conservative, south Indian Brahmin girl to do this," she told Murray. "It would make her an absolutely unmarriageable commodity after that."

Indira Nooyi passes on a opinion that it was hard to be educated being born in a Brahmin family. I only wonder whether any other sect (BC, MBC, SC, ST) offered much better choice than a Brahmin family for a woman to be more educated in her era (She was born in 1955) !!