Look, if someone says that "maybe Academica isn't for women", which is exactly my interpretation of that quote, I think it's a point to question where they're coming from. I do apologize for getting the gender wrong -- but at the same time, I'm wondering what's her point?
I use the term "deserve" because the implication I got from "Women now feel they can give up gracefully" was that women deserved to go off and do "something fun" now. As opposed to, one presumes, the hard work of being an academic?

Maybe I'm reading too much into a last paragraph. But it felt, to me, like I could have swapped "African-American" for "Women" in it, and got much of the commentary about why we, as well, aren't supposedly well-represented in Academic circles -- reasons that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation.