This study explores Indian women engineers' identities in the gendered organizational context of US engineering programmes. Liminality theory is used to examine their cultural passages, identity restructuring, and negotiations, navigating the crossing of rival and intersecting cultural norms of gender and engineering in India and the US, work, and family. Results show the gendered ideology layers that mold Indian and US engineering education, the societal constraints of marriage and family based on patrifocal Indian norms, the obstacles to hit upon an engineering job, the resources within the structures that back women, and patriarchy recognition as agency enactment and as site for shift.