Gender Is No Object: Difference between revisions

* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]. The films feature largely male-dominated militaries - some of the Jedi are women, as is Princess Leia, but most women aren't close to combat at all in either trilogy. The Expanded Universe changes this. Admittedly there aren't a lot of non-clone humans in Clone Wars works period, but works set around and after the original trilogy integrate the ranks of the Rebellion / New Republic, and to a lesser extent the Empire. Gender really isn't brought up in the Rebellion / New Republic, but there are women in every position - admirals and generals down to pilots and commandos. In the Empire, women fall into the [[Fantastic Racism|NonhuMan category, which includes women, cyborgs, nonhumans, and droids]], but some of them still claw their way up the ranks. There are more female Imperials than there are nonhuman Imperials.{{spoiler|In the New Galactic Empire as well as the Imperial Remnant, gender issues have almost completely been abolished.}}

* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]. Everybody but the [[No Woman's Land|Barrayarans]] seem to have mixed military. The Betans especially seem to have no social differentiation between genders (and hermaphrodites) in their space service or society. Being a neutral world, they tend to sit out on most wars and don't really keep an actual ''military'', but their science/astrocartographers/explorers have military training and fulfill that need as necessary. The Barrayarans' inability to process the idea of women soldiers works against them in the first book, as they not only hesitate to shoot the female protagonist (bad idea), they consistently underestimate her.

** Which, in a culture as technologically advanced and reliant as Beta Colony, makes a lot of sense.

* In [[The Keys to The Kingdom]], the House seems to work this way.