In the risk of being downvoted to death, I think reposting these articles is necessary:

'Don't become a scientist!': http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html 'Women in science': http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

The career for pure mathematicians(which is more like the humanities, and specific knowledge quite untransferrable) in academia, being better or worse, is open for discussion.