Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6134883-20130320223835

Sindri Myr wrote: 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? Kind of suggests though that Emps had some problems with women in positions of power doesn't it? Issues that latter Imperial adepta have not had - or at least not so much. I get the impression the majority of women in the Imperium, with exceptions depending on planetary cultures, are habwives and mothers. And they are probably just fine with that since it is clearly perfectly possible for a girl with other aspirations to achieve them - or at least as possible for her as for her brother.