This just does not happen in the male-oriented world of science in which, traditionally, dogs are keen to dine on dogs rather than share the bone between them,

This just does not happen in the male-oriented world of science in which, traditionally, dogs are keen to dine on dogs rather than share the bone between them, so to speak. That sounded a little sexist to me, though I wonder if she meant that a woman with two children can't do as much science as a man in the same situation.