NEWSPhotos: Fort Myers woman honored by Time MagazineDamyanti Gupta, of Fort Myers, is featured on the Time Firsts website, which showcases women who are the first to do something in their field. Gupta was the first female engineer at Ford.Amanda Inscore/The News-PressDamyanti Gupta moved to Fort Myers in 2011, 10 years after leaving the Ford Motor Company. She was the first female engineer to work at Ford.Amanda Inscore/The News-PressDamyanti Gupta, of Fort Myers, was the first female engineer at Ford Motor Company and is the mother of Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Michigan congressional candidate Suneel Gupta.Amanda Inscore/The News-PressDamyanti Gupta jokes that she followed Henry Ford first to Michigan to work at Ford Motor Company, then to Fort Myers, where she retired and he kept a winter home.Amanda Inscore/The News-PressDamyanti Gupta decided at age 19 that she wanted to work for Ford Motor Company. Her dream came true when she convinced them to hire her. They told her that they didn't have any women working there as engineers.Amanda Inscore/The News-PressSanjay, Subhash, Damyanti and Suneel Gupta.Courtesy Of Damyanti GuptaDamyanti Gupta was asked by her boss at Ford to quit working when she was pregnant with her first son, Sanjay. She transferred to a new department and continued working.Courtesy Of Damyanti GuptaDamyanti Gupta and her husband, Subhash, on their wedding day in 1968.Courtesy Of Damyanti GuptaThe Gupta family. Damyanti and Subhash Gupta have two sons, Sanjay and Suneel, and five granddaughters.Courtesy Of Damyanti GuptaDamyanti Gupta's mother, Gopi Hingorani, saved money for Damyanti to attend engineering school and to move to America.Courtesy Of Damyanti Gupta