Wow the comments in here. This is not an article about the struggles of women in academia, it's an article about the struggles of being a tenured professor in g

Wow the comments in here. This is not an article about the struggles of women in academia, it's an article about the struggles of being a tenured professor in general which are indeed hard. The primary problems are indeed what were pointed out. Professors end up being saddled with a lot of unpaid work that isn't research related: journal obligations, teaching, committees, operations, HR etc. This isn't even getting into another enormous time sink which went unmentioned, fundraising, which I've seen eat up substantial amounts of PI time via grant writing, industry relations, attending conferences to try to find money, contract negotiations etc. Most experienced PIs never actually make it back into the lab once they get tenure (assuming they are lab researchers), which is a real shame. It becomes difficult to say no to all this stuff because thousands of people are fighting tooth and nail over a tiny number of positions, and they get used to slaving away with this kind of workload because it's what academia demands of you to get a tenured position. Once you have it you just keep doing what you've been doing.