If she wants to follow, she can follow.
Another time we were staying at the home of one Indian family where the woman had been chanting sixteen rounds, getting up early, offering her food for three years but her husband wasn't favorable. The temple authorities wouldn't recommend her for initiation. So she had gone to Prabhupada personally and Prabhupada accepted her. The devotees had the attitude especially with women, "If the husband is not strict, how is the woman going to follow?" But Prabhupada didn't consider that. "If she wants to follow, she can follow." He accepted her. I saw them twenty years later in Vrindavan and the husband had become a devotee.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa
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