Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-7232811-20130320221858

While I see your point Thoris, the Imperium is largely patriarchal at the very highest levels. With a few notable execptions, (the Sisters of Battle, Sisters of Silence, Callidus Temple, etc) a lot of the leading roles in the Imperium & organisations are made of only men. The Space Marines are all men, the Custodes are all men, all the Primarchs were men, & the Emperor himself was a man. But for the other organisations, (Mechanicus, Inquisition, Ecclesiarchy, & so on) the Imperium does not really care if the head people are men or women. After all, the earliest saints of the Imperium were female, & when the survival of humanity is at stake, who cares whether your leader is a man or a woman, so long as the galaxy is saved?