Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20150618150629/@comment-8881468-20151225202015

1. As there is no gene-seed for women and nobody with enough mastery of that, it is ruled out.

2. if you have a women beating men in initiation, you can surely say: "meh, this year's harvest was not what we wanted."

then again, judging from the same backround and activities, men will be stronger and faster than women, thus more interesting for the astartes. you can look at the direct competition of professional female football playerws in europe versus men. If we take a look at the female German National team ( 2x world champions, 8x european champions), when prepairing for for bigger tournaments, that team is put against male teams to give them an opponent with equal abilities. those male teams are from  4th league or f.e. the under 18 national team. (So basiccally between the female national team and the malke national team are ~ 3 leagues with 18 teams/league and ~20-30 men/team)  so basiccally for a 24 female cadre, therer are ~1350 (18*25*3) men that are able to bring better results and fitness to the table.

If we look at it from another point of view, let us get a bit more scientific: http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/footballdevelopment/technicalsupport/01/68/06/99/fwwcphysicalanalysis-ee.pdf

the definition for men and women for running speeds:

Men’s football study by: V. Di Salvo et al.(2008)• walking <7.2km/h; jogging <14.4km/h; moderate running <19.8km/h;high-speed running 19.8km/h to 25km/h; and sprinting>25km/h over a distance of up to 20m. 2. Women’s football study with speeds adapted to womenby: M. Mohr, P. Krustrup et al. and J.Bangsbo (2008)• walking <6km/h; jogging <12km/h; moderate running15 to 18km/h; high-speed running >18 to 25km/h andsprinting >25km/h

we could also compare the world records in athletics, you will see that women are not getting to the heights of men.