I assume you are comparing this with some professional living ,I have read the article not personally met but this is not her professional job and she has been doing for a long term. Yeah ,there might be some women who open some bakery and just got for a sake of award or some lady who climbed to everest just for sake of getting award or to be first women to climb the everest or swimming a lake but I guess this selfless behaviour is worth an applaud compared any of those who are on the list.
Irony about west is women tend to do something just for the sake of getting award or no woman has done it before . At least we don't have such trend like climb everest not because no women has climbed it before but climb because no human has climbed it before.