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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 on average.

The truth is almost everyone is incompetent and leaders get more scrutiny.

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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.

This is a great example of Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle).

  "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."

Pursuant to the topic, though, leadership pays more and therefore is populated by sexist men hiring each other. Emergent properties.

>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?

Occam's Razor points to The Iron Law of Oligarchies/Institutions much more than "bad luck."

I agree. However, Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchies doesn't have anything to do with sexism.

True, it could also be more general xenophobia. Not in the clinical sense, of course.

Add to that that leadership in most cases (in tech) is really hard...

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