Princeton professor Alan Ryan, wonders why women still appear to be losing out in academia

"Beyond the buffers", Times Higher Education, April 7, 2011.

...an apparent hesitation on the part of very clever, energetic and high-spirited women when it comes to "leadership"...

...Nonetheless, there is something faintly disturbing about the fact that women do better than men academically, all the way to the very top, at which point men outperform women...