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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1874467" data-attributes="member: 1328">It depends on the culture, which itself depends on the country and the race.The good-aligned races (dwarves, gnomes, and elves) believe in equal rights and duties for everyone. The neutral races (humans and halflings) not so much.Most usually, feminine equality is more widespread in the aristocracy than in the hoi polloi. For example, people would not have problem with being the subject of a Queen, Duchess, Countess, etc. because, she's not merely a woman -- she's a noble foremost. But a woman as a captain of the Guards?There are always exceptions, of course. There's a weird country where the oligarchs consider women to be only objects of standing, meant to be displayed as proof of your wealth and fine taste; while the poors, having to work hard, do not discriminate between men and women, only between able worker and cripple.But that human country was founded by former slaves of a now-extinct ophidian race (looking a bit like the Sarrukh from Serpent Kingdoms), who tried to imitate their former masters' civilization. A civilization that was created by a serpentine race with an alien mindset, and of which the humans understood next to nothing since most of the communications between ophidians were inintelligible to humans (ultrasonic whistling, body language involving modifying patterns of skin temperature and emission of subtle pheromones, utter lack of facial expressivity, etc.).Then of course you've got various character paths. Only the fighting classes (barbarian, fighter) are "prejudiced against" women. You won't find much girls in mercenary companies or in town militias -- at least among the combattants.Nobility (aristocrat) is something you're born into. So gender matters not here.For clergy (cleric, healer, monk, paladin, sohei), it will depend on faith (both the deity, and the order). So, you'll have men-only orders and women-only orders, and you'll have undiscriminating orders. On the whole, you have gender equality there. Monks and sohei (known as guardians) will usually be men, healers will usually be women, clerics can be both; and for paladins, while most people will expect men to have that role, as it is a question of divine calling, the odds are even for either sex.The paths of arcane magic (bard, mageblade, runethane, sorcerer, wizard) are open to anyone with the Gift. Thanks to the existence of sorcerers (known as epigones), scholars know that arcane power can be as strong among women as it can be among men, so there are no bigotted views here. Mageblades are more likely to be men, bards are more likely to be women, the other classes are ex-aequo.Natural magic (druid, ranger, shaman, witch) is also quite diverse. These people are usually loners, often kinda outcasts, so they don't care at all about preconception and prejudice. With only wilderness around them, who's going to tell them: "no, you can't be a ranger because you're a girl!" ? An exception are the witch (from AU), whose practice is usually taught from mother to daughter, leaving boys outside of it.Spiritual magic, or psionic, is a rare and badly understood phenomenon. Outside of the mentats (akashic from AU) and tacticians (Marshall from MH), who are the only (half-successful) attempt at teaching and learning psionics, and are indeed somewhat restricted to males; the psionic gifts can appear in anyone.Finally, there's the underground. Rogues are as likely to be of either sex, however, actual thieves, hitmen, burglars and other criminals tend to be men. Maffiosi "guid leaders" tend to be men.</blockquote>

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