I think the reason women are underrepresented in leadership is because leaders make followers feel safe. Most men do not want to be the one feeling safe but the one making others feel safe.
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There's a traditional noble virtue this. Men want to grow up so they can protect their mothers. The traditional female role that makes the male feel safe is Mother.
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Women also, don't want to treat their husbands like their sons. Traditional noble virtues were considered noble and virtuous by everyone.
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Imagine a 30+ yr old woman with a strained marriage and a 23 year old woman CEO widely considered to be the Elon Musk of their generation. Imagine them eating dinner together with the older woman thinking "I feel so safe and protected with her, I can fully be myself."
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Theoretically possible, but mostly there's a suspicion that the older woman will never be able to not be threatened by the younger one
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The dynamic doesn't work the same with genders reversed since the older man will know that the younger man has far more to choose from.
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also, women can feel powerful when they feel they have the ability(but not the obligation) to induce an affair while men are judged more by being able to fully follow through on what they say they can do. mental games induce more paranoia than physical games.
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two questions to tease apart here. One is, is following Yin a virtue? Does the virtue of Yang necessarily require it as leader? Second is, if a Mother is forced into a Father role, should she be denied the tools of leadership.
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The answer to the second is morally "No" since it accepts the necessity of the situation and bends the rules as necessary. The answer to the first one is more tricky...
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The closest nation level one is Amazonian Wonder Woman culture but that's a comic book world. How it actually would work in real life remains to be seen.
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The Queen of England is another. But this seems to require a division of society via a caste-like split. The concept of "royalty" feels masculine and that's what's actually providing the sense of meaning/safety, not the motherly virtue itself.
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the Single Mother archetype is a tragic archetype, not a heroic one. This is impossible to change because of how the words Mother and Father have evolved. A heroic single mother by necessity requires a villainous weak father. No villain, no hero.
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In an androgynous society where you only have Caretakers then this doesn't hold true. Yet if society thinks men and women are "good", then it needs to continue to produce men and women because it is implicitly valuing the differences in men and women.
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Another way to say it is that history is white ink written and black paper but could have just as well been black ink written on white paper. To blur everything into grey before you understand the words is to destroy culture and history and start worshipping the lord of the flies
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True History has wave/particle duality. As a particle, it passes on through written text and spoken word. As a wave, it passes on through culture. The tokenized Him takes the credit for Real History. But Culture smiles furtively, knowing that it is She who really runs the world.
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