I’m a current math & econ major student, and I want to be a professor in BC in the future.

I'm a current math & econ major student, and I want to be a professor in BC in the future. What can I do now to achieve this goal? Will my gender (woman) affect my chance of being employed? I'm an undergraduate!
I’m a current math & econ major student, and I want to be a professor in BC in the future. What can I do now to achieve this goal? Will my gender (woman) affect my chance of being employed? I’m an undergraduate!

I know many things, and one thing I know is that your math and econ professors will have considerably better advice than I would about academic careers in those fields. Talk to all of them. Meanwhile, check this title: Complexities: Women in Mathematics, by Bettye Anne Case & Anne M Leggett. (O’Neill QA27.5 .C66 2005)