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I would say that it's not that incompetent men become leaders. Certainly men are over-represented, but I would wager that woman leaders are no more competent o

I would say that it's not that incompetent men become leaders. Certainly men are over-represented, but I would wager that woman leaders are no more competent on average. The truth is almost everyone is incompetent and leaders get more scrutiny.

Shubley 10y ago
That's actually a good point. Everyone is incompetent; we just don't have a way of filtering that in our leaders. Possibly because the people selecting those leaders are incompetent too. It's incompetence all the way down.
- tejasmanohar 10y ago
  This is a great example of Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle). "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
rhizome 10y ago
Pursuant to the topic, though, leadership pays more and therefore is populated by sexist men hiring each other. Emergent properties.
- gozur88 10y ago
  >Pursuant to the topic, though, leadership pays more and therefore is populated by sexist men hiring each other. Is there any evidence this is true?
  - rhizome 10y ago
    Occam's Razor points to The Iron Law of Oligarchies/Institutions much more than "bad luck."
    - gozur88 10y ago
      I agree. However, Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchies doesn't have anything to do with sexism.
      - rhizome 10y ago
        True, it could also be more general xenophobia. Not in the clinical sense, of course.
bjornsing 10y ago
Add to that that leadership in most cases (in tech) is really hard...