Claire Mack Mugasa’s choice to pursue a career in medicine is not surprising given that her mother is a nurse and her father a doctor. Initially, she wanted to become a doctor, but her father encouraged her to study veterinary medicine instead. He suggested that she could be sure she would be helping people to put enough food on their tables—a point she found most compelling. But the final push came from her classmates, who told her that this discpline was too hard for girls. “That made me determined to prove them wrong,” she says.