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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1587935" data-attributes="member: 8447">In the world I am currently designing, women developed magical powers; essentially they started as sorcerers.&nbsp; Men far later learned the trick through wizardry, but it is harder to learn (you must begin your character's life as a wizard, due to training restrictions, etc.), while women may be either wizards (with the same restrictions) or sorcerers (may develop at any time).&nbsp; On the other hand, not all women are sorcerers, only a small percentage of the population.&nbsp; Conversely, men control most of the military; much like in our own world, women arediscouraged from the military as they are the main child-rearers -- anatomy and all that.&nbsp; This means that most weapon training and the like is a Men Only club.&nbsp; The learned are split pretty much equally between men and women.&nbsp; Judges, scholars, and the like could as likely be men as women, but they tend to bring their own prejudices with them (as always happens) and there are endless intellectual debates over the relative merits of male versus female.This means that there is a state of semi-equality.&nbsp; Few women are allowed to train with weapons, few men learn magic.&nbsp; Each is powerful in their own regard, but the genders are not precisely equal.&nbsp; Politically there is something of a tug-of-war -- while the society is nominally patriarchal, at least as far as naming practices are concerned, inheritance is left far more open.&nbsp; Some families go strictly primogeniture -- whoever is first born, regardless of sex, gets the whole ball of wax.&nbsp; Others go for first male.&nbsp; Others go for equal shares.&nbsp; Politically the main kingdom follows straight primogeniture for the royal family, but the major noble families choose on their own.&nbsp; In other words, sexism is built into the world, but it is a multi-faceted sexism where both sides can claim superiority in different spheres of influence.&nbsp; Since I have four men and two women in my group, they are now excited about how this will play out -- and they are adding extra background bits to muddle the picture further!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 1587935, member: 8447"] In the world I am currently designing, women developed magical powers; essentially they started as sorcerers. Men far later learned the trick through wizardry, but it is harder to learn (you must begin your character's life as a wizard, due to training restrictions, etc.), while women may be either wizards (with the same restrictions) or sorcerers (may develop at any time). On the other hand, not [I]all [/I] women are sorcerers, only a small percentage of the population. Conversely, men control most of the military; much like in our own world, women arediscouraged from the military as they are the main child-rearers -- anatomy and all that. This means that most weapon training and the like is a Men Only club. The learned are split pretty much equally between men and women. Judges, scholars, and the like could as likely be men as women, but they tend to bring their own prejudices with them (as always happens) and there are endless intellectual debates over the relative merits of male versus female. This means that there is a state of semi-equality. Few women are allowed to train with weapons, few men learn magic. Each is powerful in their own regard, but the genders are not precisely equal. Politically there is something of a tug-of-war -- while the society is nominally patriarchal, at least as far as naming practices are concerned, inheritance is left far more open. Some families go strictly primogeniture -- whoever is first born, regardless of sex, gets the whole ball of wax. Others go for first male. Others go for equal shares. Politically the main kingdom follows straight primogeniture for the royal family, but the major noble families choose on their own. In other words, sexism is built into the world, but it is a multi-faceted sexism where both sides can claim superiority in different spheres of influence. Since I have four men and two women in my group, they are now excited about how this will play out -- and they are adding extra background bits to muddle the picture further! [/QUOTE]

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