Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

Introduction

Origins and influences

The starting point of this book was to gather the stories and experiences of exceptional women in academia, stories about women from numerous nationalities working in university environments in Switzerland. They remain a minority, and I wanted to make visible their research work and to celebrate their achievements. Through working also with aspiring young researchers, particularly young women, I wanted also to provide them with valuable information and insight into the various routes to professorship arising from the career experience of female professors. This book project has evolved and developed over the last four years.

Three initiatives had a strong influence on the book, all of them originated from the ...