Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6078851-20130321014246

it may simply be the fact that males (in general) are more inately violent than females.

females (in general) have a greater sense of empathy than males, and while females can be just as capable of extreme violence as males they can't be motivated towards exteme violence as easily. this may be why there are so few female warriors in the imperium.

i don't doubt for a second that the imperium has vast numbers of females, if we use current earth as a template the ratio of females to males is something like 3:1, so there should be plenty in the imperium.

it might also be that the emperor foresaw the imperium's need for a continuous supply of bodies and maybe limited how many females were allowed to fight so that there would always be plenty of mothers.

one of the reasons i like the eldar and dark eldar is because their warriors are equally male and female.