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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Wouldn’t this only hold if the followers were all women, given the “most men don’t want to be the one feeling safe” clause?
Anyone can be both. It’s possible to simultaneously have a mentor and a mentee. But Sons tend to want to outgrow Mothers more than Daughters want to outgrow Fathers. Socially there’s shame if father needs to rely on daughter
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I reckon there's a substantial amount of the male population that wants to be controlled by a mother to offset some of your argument.
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Is that considered virtuous though? (by the standards of w/e culture/society you're referring to) I'm not making an argument. I'm just pointing out that the existing guilt/shame dynamics around men/women (for most cultures) push men towards vanguard/meat-shield roles.
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