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No one of us specifically worked on the feminization of the veterinary profession. However, in our research on food safety in slaughterhouses (Laure) and on antimicrobial use in livestock (Nicolas), we met female veterinarians who talked with us, yet sometime briefly, about their careers. To illustrate our former note, we decided to present short extracts of these interviews in which those women speak about their personal and professional trajectories.In the whole of our interviews, we picked 10 that tackle with the personal and professional trajectories of the female veterinarians who participated in our fieldworks. This sample is not meant to be representative, it just illustrates the phenomena of feminization that we previously described ((We remind you that this blog is open to comments, testimonies or contributions)).The women who talk in this notes series belong to different generations: the older one completed her veterinary studies in 1975, while the youngest one graduated in 2002. Amongst these 10 women, 6 have married a veterinarian and that has played a significant role in their own career.We start with the story of two women who wanted to go into partnership to open their own practice but who couldn’t, because of several forms of rejections (including misogyny).&#160;“My mommy said to me: “don’t become a vet!” Because it wasn’t an occupation for women. So, with my contradictory spirit, and of discovery, I didn’t listen to my mom. I was the youngest of the family. And I became a vet to care for cows. I already had a lot of backaches when I was a kid, and then a teenager and an adult. So rural practice wasn’t for me. For health reasons. Then I met my husband who is also a veterinarian. And son of a vet. And mom always said: “this occupation is not for you”. But I still became one, at first I picked a rural specialty but then I had to change because of these backaches, and since my husband wanted to set up a rural practice in a region where there was a lot of obstetric issues, which I couldn’t undertake, I reoriented towards the poultry industry. (…) So I worked in the aviculture sector as a veterinary consultant in livestock management. Until the day I have been rejected because of my disabled child… I have been rejected. I wanted to go into partnership and it didn’t work because I have been told: “you have a disabled child so we don’t want you in the partnership”. (…) So I reoriented again. As it wasn’t well paid, as an employee, I tried to do something else. It was difficult because I was constraint by a non-competition clause, since I was already working in the region. So one thing leading to another I thought: “well, I’m going to apply for a food safety position as I never really considered food safety issues in my previous jobs”. So I applied for a position in a slaughterhouse and I got it.”&#160;Graduated from the veterinary school of Toulouse in 1984. Started to work for the State veterinary services in 1993. Daughter of a veterinarian, married a veterinarian himself son of a veterinarian and working in a rural practice.&#160;“I am indirectly from a rural family, that is to say that my grand-parents, my uncles, they all worked as farmers, in mixed farming and mixed animal farming, from both sides of my family. It is just my parents who got access in postwar period to national education programs and became teachers or researchers. So I am from the third generation but I spent a lot of time at the farm. I became a veterinarian to take care of farm animals because I like being outside and having an intellectual occupation. So I did that for this.I graduated from the veterinary school in 1985. Then I got a degree in epidemiology. What I realized and particularly interested me during my studies is the difference between individual medicine and herd medicine. So with my education and also my family farming background I realized that individual medicine was more a cost than a profit. So I tried to develop this kind of herd cure and prevention approach. I started my professional life in rural medicine in a region that was quite pioneer in this kind of approaches, especially about reproduction. (…) Helping a cow to calve is great, but not to have complicated calving is better. So this was this approach I was interested in and I went to the veterinary school to work with farm animals. I never worked in small animal medicine. So I worked in a rural practice for two or three years with a clientele that was very efficient and with a veterinarian who was very innovative. In this region there was just two practices that were like that and competing each other, one rather specialized in animal food, the other in reproduction. I worked there for almost two years. I was a woman and at this time it wasn’t very frequent so I couldn’t set up a partnership. I got the opportunity to be employed by a company. I felt a bit depressed but I told to myself: “in an efficient and modern clinic I have no chance, I will never make it”.At this moment I was offered to work for a veterinary drugs wholesaler, as a veterinary consultant, to develop an equipment division in the company. There it was a completely different world. (…) It was equipment for veterinarians, for veterinary practices. At this time there was an evolution from pure rural practice towards mixed practice. Lots of practices needed an equipment to be more efficient in small animal medicine. I stayed there for three years. I said to myself: “why not working for companies?”. I had an opportunity in Spain but I didn’t want to go for this challenge only with my veterinary degree. So I did a MBA at Lyon Business school. It took me a year and the Spanish project felt through. I got a job in a pharmaceutical company. I first led the commercial division, then the industrial one which was at that time concerned by all drugs for sheep, pigs and poultry. After 13 years, I got married, I got children, my husband had to move to Brest for his job [in French Britany]. So I had to do a 180° conversion and going back to practice. With my knowledge of the different veterinary occupations, I was mostly interested by the poultry sector. I really hate pigs! So I converted to poultry veterinary medicine and it now lasts for almost 12 years.”&#160;Graduated from the veterinary school of Toulouse in 1985. Her professional trajectory constitutes in a series of experiences after she couldn’t go into partnership in the clinic she liked to work in. Her husband’s professional transfer is a key explanatory factor of the position she has at the time of the interview. &#160;