In a weird way this made me think of the CW Supergirl show. They seem to present different types of men and women there too. I love supergirl too (tbf I love a lot of the Arrowverse shows, but supergirl is a favourite).
I think DS9 did this well too. Their massive cast gave them the chance to show many different types of men and women.
Again this made me think of comic book stuff - particularly the Agent Carter tv show. There seemed to be a similar dynamic between Carter and a couple of the male characters in that show.
FWIW I thought DSC had a lot of competent, clever characters, both male and female - Tilly and Stamets for starters. Both of those were cleverer than Michael in a couple of scenes (I use Michael as a yardstick as she’s held up as a seriously clever person on numerous occasions). There’s also Cornwell and Saru, who are competent command level officers (prime Georgiou as well), and I like seeing clever people be clever and doing things that show how good they are at what they do.
At the other end of the spectrum we have some not so clever people - Landry is overconfident, Lorca isn’t especially intelligent so much as he’s a good liar (but not in a fun Garak kind of way) and he relies on the more intelligent people around him (Saru, Stamets, Michael) to realise elements of his dastardly plan, and Mirror Georgiou, who is useless without the resources of the Terran empire to prop her up (is bested by Lorca and is then kidnapped and manipulated into capitulation by Michael).
This strikes me as being reflective of real life and kinda makes DSC more relatable. In a way that DS9 was moreso than watching the Ubers on TNG (except Barclay, I love that guy). One of the messages of Star Trek has always been equality of women and men (and children and aliens and animals and Wesley) - it’s good to see that still reflected in Discovery.
