[marcuspovey]

Two separate questions conflated together:

1) Why aren't there more women in positions of authority? 2) Why are the majority of people in authority incompetent?

The answer to the second is probably that people get promoted exactly one level above their ability. The answer to the former is the real problem, and I suspect that if you solve that you'd still have a world run by a bunch of idiots, it's just that 50% of them would be female.

[tbrownaw]

They're not being conflated, the claim is that they share a common cause (men are good at faking competence).

[icecreampain]

The former is not a real problem for anyone except college feminists. As soon as they graduate and have kids then paying the bills will be become a real problem. Women not being in exactly 50% or less positions of authority will be quickly forgotten.

Seeing that HN is a tech site: competent tech women will get a hold of tech jobs on their skill level. Incompetent women will either not do tech or be discriminated in to the job.