It is indeed tragic. Women suffer the greatest impact from irrational decisions made by men. Climate change is a good example--one "rational" decision after another placing short-sighted profits over civic responsibility. Wars are another--men start them, but 80% of the casualties in recent decades are non-combatants. Women. Children.

As for scientists, I agree they are generally better qualified for many reasons, but not automatically. For one thing, their knowledge tends to be highly specialized; leaders should be generalists. Also, many do not understand emotions, though they are affected by them. And finally, as Kuhn points out in his seminal book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, scientists are seldom the dispassionate truth-seekers we imagine them to be. They stake out positions and suffer from confirmation bias just like all the rest of us.