Originally Posted by
Sutekh
A) Keep one around for longer than a year. Doesn't seem to matter if it's Wanda or Wasp or She-Hulk, the 'core' big three Avengers are Cap, Thor and Iron Man, and some rando others that rotate constantly. It could be Wanda. Or it could be Black Widow. Or Wasp. Or Carol Danvers. None of the Avengers ladies seem to have the same staying power as Storm, or even Jean or Emma, it seems. As this moment 'the first two' X-ladies, Jean and Storm, are large and in charge as leaders of the Quiet Council, while 'the first two' Avengers ladies, Wanda and Janet are... somewhere? Not on an Avengers team, that's for sure.
B) Attitude. Jean, not so much, but Storm and Emma have it in spades. They don't just stand at the back of the pack with the half-dozen others, passively observing the speaker (Cap or Tony), but they are up front doing the speaking. There are times when Wanda or Jan can come off as passengers. Emma, even when someone else is calling the shots, is *not* being ignored. (That said, in better days, Jan definitely brought the sass. It's only in the last decade or so that she's become a doormat.)
C) Less fear of powerful women. When Carol becomes Binary, or Monica Rambeau gets powered up in Mighty Avengers, or Sersi or Moondragon becomes an Avenger, they always seem to get powered back down (or sidelined). There's no fear of fielding a team of X-Men in which *Storm* is the heavy hitter (or Rachel in Excalibur, or Jean, etc.). And yet having a female Thor, or the extended run where Sersi was the 'heavy hitter,' seem to be outliers.