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The data shows that this is the opposite of the truth. There is considerable bias against men in the legal system.
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Average is not the same as prominent, female CEOs face more scrutiny of their performance. I posted a link to a study on another comment.
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Respectfully, do you think you're shifting goalposts?

Your argument was that women were more punished by law. The studies (as someone else linked) show that women are less punished by law.

You switched your argument to "powerful women," which would require a lot of evidence, because it is contrary to the statistical expectation from the previous data, that women of all kinds would be less punished by law than their male counterparts.

Now, your argument and the study you linked just refers to how many women get promoted and the attention and criticism they get, which is separate from our legal system.

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Is the bias always in the same direction regardless of which laws are broken?
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Care to share your data?
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Lololo. It is exceptionally rare to be prosecuted, let alone convicted, as a woman.

The musk’s of the world are just exceptional at getting leverage - and pretty good/exceptional at manipulation.

Holmes was just good at manipulation, not so good at leverage, and eventually her fraud rose to the level even her manipulation skills were insufficient - and then had nothing to fall back on.

Oops.

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I did look up the numbers actually. On average women get lighter sentences for fraud, not exceptionally rare at all more like 30% shorter sentences. But on the other hand prominent women (CEOs) are much highly scrutinized, especially their departures so average and prominent here are not the same.

https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/about/newsroom/women-ceos...

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This is research conducted and published by an executive search firm in London, versus the mountains of actual academic studies somebody else linked on sentencing disparities.
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What is the rate? That is what I am referring to.
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You are delusional, the stats say differently, both for prosecution and for conviction.
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I don't care either way, but I do wonder how those stats look if you focus on powerful women, rather than all women.
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