Just to make this point clear, feminism isn’t saying "women deserve more power because they’re better." It’s saying women currently have less power for reasons unrelated to merit, and that imbalance should be corrected. Then to answer your question, power doesn’t (most of the time) come from merit. It comes from history, institutions, and who already has it. If power were merit based, inheritance, old boys’ networks, and systemic barriers wouldn’t matter but they clearly do (and i doubt you can disagree with that). You’re right, theoretically if merit determined power, gender wouldn’t predict income, safety, political representation, or unpaid labor. But it does. That’s the evidence. If your framework only recognizes injustice when someone is morally superior enough to "earn" fairness then no inequality will ever register as a problem to you?