When, at the tender age of 18, Nabanita Datta Gupta left her family in India to become an Ivy League student in the United States, she broke with the patriarchal culture of her homeland. Today, she is one of very few female professors of economics in Denmark, and her areas of research at the Department of Economics and Business at Aarhus University include gender differences on the labour market. She celebrates her 50th birthday on 14 January this year.