>>2193881
It's just you,
But Starsector does have more women in the main plot than the average.

going through the list
https://starsector.wiki.gg/wiki/Character
Baird is only pulling the strings she has and most of those are powerful men who made a mistake, the way the plot end show she is just as arrogant
Gargoyle pull crazy level hacking but don't seek power and is gender is probably just to show zhe libertarian hacker can't be bound by such convention
Scylla Coureuse do work on important tech but the Tri-tach making the Ziggurat were also doing crazy stuff
The only surprise is that usually the scientist couple would include a male

>Hegemony
Baikal Daud is the leader of the most powerful faction and baird can't do her stuff without his approval
>Church
No idea of the hierarchy within the Church but Ludd would top it all anyway
Livewell Cotton make everyone shit themselves just with proof he was around and he can be anywhere he want
>League
Leader of the Persean league is a man, don't remember any woman
>Diktat
2 man 1 woman, All glory to Andrada
>Tri-Tach
A woman but if you read the Lore she was removed from power during the 2nd AI-War
"CEO Artemisia Sun returns to lead Tri-Tachyon after the “new guard” executives are completely disgraced."
Rayan the Tri-tech executive can pull some serious power Baird can't and just don't have anything to use against her
>pirate
pirate queen, that's powerful but not a real faction and she is a traitorous fool