Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success

By Anna Garry

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by the women featured in this book. These interviews show their diverse life stories and include women at the beginning of the career, middle stages, and those with long experience.

These remarkable women relate how they navigated their careers. They reveal unexpected paths and support and discuss how they got hooked by science/their field, why they chose this career, 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 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 offering strong, actionable solutions for overcoming career obstacles

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012812346X
• ISBN13: 9780128123461
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"