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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 have decided to present short extracts of these interviews in which those women speak about their personal and professional trajectories.In this fourth note we again explore the question of the articulation between private and professional life, showing how the career of the women veterinarians we interviewed has been influenced by their partner choices.First I graduated from veterinary school and then I did replacements in small animal practices, especially because I was married to another vet and we both had some difficulties to find a job. Because he wanted to do both farm and small animals and I only wanted to work with companion animals. So it wasn’t very easy. So I work in small animal practices and he worked in farm animal practices but in the end, as we weren’t able to find a stable position, we thought it would be easier to work for the State veterinary services. It was especially my husband who wanted to join the vet services. Personally I first thought that I would find a job in a pharmaceutical lab because I liked that as well. But then we met someone from the ministry of Agriculture in Paris and he told us than we would be the 17th or 18th couple of veterinary inspectors, so he advised us to pass the exam together, which we did, and we both succeeded in it!Graduated in 1980. Married to a veterinarian. I graduated from Maisons-Alfort veterinary school and my first idea was to be an independent rural vet. Well it was a very common way of conceiving veterinary careers! A little bit how children conceive it! But during my studies I changed my mind. On the one hand my husband was also with me at the veterinary school and I didn’t want to work with him, so I refused to set up a partnership with him. And on the other hand, I had the opportunity to pass the veterinary inspector exam while I still was at school, in the third year, so I finally started to work for the government very early in my career.Started to work for the State veterinary services in 1985. Married to a veterinarian.&#160;At first I didn’t want to work in slaughterhouses. I wanted to work in a practice, like many students want to. And this is what I did during several years after I graduated. But after a few years I realized that it didn’t fit with the idea I had about being a vet. So I decided to reconsider my career and I was looking for several opportunities. I had job interviews with pet food companies and with pharmaceutical companies. But whether I didn’t like it, whether I haven’t been hired. So this is when I started to think about the State veterinary services, as I thought it was a very interesting way to valuate my veterinary skills and degree (…). I realized that the more I was studying the legislation the more I liked it. It was a kind of magic to me to realize that people’s day-to-day activity [in animal health] was ruled by the legislation, I really was impressed by that. But I failed the exam. And at that time, for personal reasons, I had to move to Paris to follow my future husband. So I kept on with some replacements in small animal practices to earn my living. And then I found a teaching position at the butchery school (…). I did that for two years, half-time, and during the holydays I kept on with the replacements. But there I was teaching anatomy, food microbiology, legislation and all this kind of things. So, in the end, everything that is part of veterinary inspectors’ work. And that was great because teaching all these things also helped me to learn them. So this is how I finally passed the State veterinary services exam. I passed it for a second time, and I got it.Graduated in 1989. Married to a veterinarian.