Most literature on the effect of family and parenthood for gendered academic career and the continuous underrepresentation of female academic staff among senior academics demonstrates similar findings. Commitments such as family and child rearing have been identified as an obstacle to academic career advancement for women, though far less so for men. This article argues that women in academic careers in Indonesia accept double burden of working as lecturers and doing their domestic works voluntarily to balance practicing their religious principles, societal norms and commitment for their career as their aspiration for modern life. Using in-depth interviews of 15 female academics from two universities in Jakarta, this study finds that women in academia have accepted the co-existence of motherhood and academic careers. An academic career is considered the best profession that enables women to play their dual roles as professionals and mothers.