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CMV: Matriarchy will be just as bad as patriarchy

It is common to see claims that if only women were in charge things would be much better and nicer.  e.g. people would be much happier at work, inequality would fall, climate change would be solved.

I don't believe this is factually true. It seems to rest partly on some cherry picked anecdotes about female prime ministers/CEOs. And partly on a gendered conception of power which supposes that the best explanation for why people in charge of things seem so mean, self-serving, unresponsive to their constituents' needs, etc is that they are **men**. It seems far more likely to me that this follows from the structure of **power**.

My concern is that assuming bad power is because of men leaves us unprepared for the very probable discovery that women  in power are just as bad. We should be focusing on restructuring power so that leaders are more accountable and employees etc more empowered (e.g. via workplace democracy) rather than focusing on trying to change the gender of the people we grant dictatorial powers to.  I suggest we should care less about the gender of the supercompetitive alphas who get the top jobs, and more about the poor saps who will be ruled by them.

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*Sidenote: I see the world rapidly shifting away from patriarchy and towards matriarchy. Equal rights for women combined with men's significant underperformance in education have led to women dominating ever more of the professional management jobs in rich countries. For the moment it is true that senior levels with real power are still dominated by men, but that seems an age cohort thing, not a gender thing. In the next decades we will see those jobs as CEOs, lawfirm partners, cabinet ministers, high school principals, mayors, etc increasingly filled by women instead of men, simply because there are so many better qualified women moving up through the system.*

Edit: 

Apparently some people are confused by my definitions: 

* Patriarchy = the people in charge of things are mostly men
* Matriarchy = the people in charge of things are mostly women

Other definitions of patriarchy/matriarchy certainly exist, but many of them seem circular with respect to this issue, e.g. defining true matriarchy as a society of perfect equality, harmony, etc (like a 'truly socialist society'). So I will stick to my simple definition.
gpt
Google just told me that \~15% of CEOs are women.  In a non-patriarchy/matriarchy you would assume that number should be closer to 50%.  What you perceive as a march toward matriarchy is really just the scales balancing. As for the claims that things would be better if Women were in charge of everything are pretty much never made by people actually in charge of anything.