Big-time academia is just as “greedy” . Lots of over qualified female faculty at my regional public 4year uni.because they sought more work-life balance. Big time academia (if lucky enough to get a TT position at an R1) is worse than big Law or Big Accounting because the pay is not enough to afford a full time nanny etc. Now that greed is seeping into the smaller institutions as well, due to the oversupply of PhD’s from highly regarded institutions. The attitude is:“Hey look, this person’ s got a PhD from Harvard- he/she can start our new [insert some humanities specialty] program from scratch and teach 4 classes a semester and mentor undergrads and …” This is not hypothetical - we have a few humanities PhD’s from H and P on tenure track / tenured faculty at my directional uni.
Academic administration is even more “greedy” - a 5 to 9 job is what I call it, with less flexibility in hours than in teaching. Some women faculty I know move into administration after the kids are out of school. Others take on more more service roles at their colleges and outside. It’s hard, if not impossible, to get back into the research stream after being on the mommy track at a teaching focused university.