Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science/their field. In addition, they discuss why they chose this career, the obstacles they encountered, and how they found a way forward. Each interview encapsulates the advice and practical solutions they give.

Features interviews with a diverse group of females in faculty and leadership positions, and from a broad range of STEM disciplinesIncludes coverage of the tenure-track process, integration into the academic community, challenges at leadership level, and advantages of corporate governanceFocuses on strong, actionable solutions for overcoming career obstacles