In this article I analyze the individuation processes of professors at a private university in Bogotá (Colombia) having work and family as axes, as social institutions that are part of the subject's configurations and affect their individual experiences. Through a mixed methodology, which included the application of a survey to 126 people, 14 interviews and 2 focus groups, I approach the academic career from a sociology of the individual with a gender focus. In that sense, I make an analysis based on the identification of common situations in singular trajectories (Araujo and Martuccelli, 2010), emphasizing the role that gender plays in the way in which men and women face and respond to tests, They configure and signify certain supports and, following this, they are constructed as individuals in the academic world.