Abstract
Conversations with 23 women professors from 11 nationalities working in academia illustrating the variety of routes to professorship. Majority work in science, technology, engineering and math fields. They discuss origins of interest in academic life, how they took career steps, identified their research field, developed research questions, progressed in academia, PhD research, publications, postdoc experience at home and abroad, teaching and supervision, and dealt with success and setbacks. The factors that enable successful negotiation of career transitions from assistant professorships, the tenure-track, through the tenure process, to a full professorship, and wider leadership experience are discussed. The importance of personal development, inner strength, increasing management skills. Examples of dealing with dual careers, partnerships and success, parenthood and academia. Female academics need to prepare for high administrative burden and potential implicit biases towards women in academia. Advice to young career researchers: be open to opportunity, prepare and plan in advance, dare to take risks, seek out next steps proactively, find a career that fits your personality.
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