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Through a case study with a group of undergraduate students in the physics education program, we explore the cultural expectations, perceived recognition, and identity negotiations that women in a Muslim-majority country face through their career trajectories in physics (i.e., high school physics teachers). Data were collected through one-to-one interviews (n =10 female students) and were analyzed through a constant comparative method. The findings provide insights into the reasons why (or why not) Muslim women in Indonesia pursue a physics-based careers. The findings revealed that the participants did not experience any conflicts between their Islamic religious identities and physics identities, the cultural expectations served as resources and not as barriers to their trajectories, and they all experiences explicit recognition from their family and social circles.
