No support for my career path?

Ok, no offense, but your family is stupid and old-fashioned. You may love them, and want their support, but there is no way that you're going to get their approval. If it's what you really want to do, and if they love you and you do it, in the end they'll support you one way or another, whether they like it or not. Women are perfectly capable of the same things as men- except peeing standing up, and I've met some who have mastered that. Nothing you do will injure your freaking uterus unless you stick something sharp up in there, or take drugs, or get get an STD. As long as you don't like try to lift a car, you're good. I say go for it. :)