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** ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)|Gauntlet]]'' has three male (Warrior, Wizard, Elf), one female (Valkyrie). Sequel ''Gauntlet Legends'' averts this by changing the androgynous-looking elf to a female elven Archer. ''Dark Legacy'' falls back in when adding four more characters to the exisitng four: three male (Dwarf, Knight, Jester) and one female (Sorceress). As well, the breasts on all the women became about [[Gag Boobs|twice the size of their heads]]. ''Seven Sorrows'' then goes back to the original four characters.
*** ''Get Medieval'', a [[Spiritual Successor]] by Monolith Productions, kept a 2:2 ration by turning the Wizard into a naughty sorceress whose every line was a [[Double Entendre]]. (Okay, some were even single ones...)
** Both ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' games have one female in a group of three males. In the sequel, the two groups meet so it's two girls with six guys. All the [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] in the game are male, including the zombies until the female version of the Boomer was introduced in the sequel.
* In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, while there are a small handful of important female NPCs, when it comes to the playable characters, the three main characters are all male, and there's only one female [[Guest Star Party Member]] in each game; Ariel of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' in the first one, and [[Mulan]] in the sequel.
** This is partially due to the constraints of the setting. How many female Disney characters could believably be adapted to combat? Even Ariel was a big stretch...though given that this is a game who managed to make {{spoiler|Mickey Mouse}} a [[Badass]], it's not impossible.
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== Real Life ==
* Reversed in Federal Civil Service in the USA, with some agencies like the Forest Service being 70% or more female due to Affirmative Action. Ironically due to executive meddling of another kind in 1993, qualifications were waived for the typical middle and high level manager in most agencies, resulting in more than half of Federal Civil Service not meeting the educational requirements and/or time in grade required in 2011. The typical situation under the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration was to give National Forests, BLM Districts, Field Offices and similar high level positions to secretaries and aides, raising them as many as 11 paygrades overnight. It's not uncommon for entire offices to be women and to have them composed of "scientists", "engineers" and so on that do not have a degree in the field they represent.
** Defied in Federal Civil Service in Canada, by the simple expedient of not listing the applicants' sex or gender on the application forms that the hiring boards get to see. The best-qualified people are the ones considered for every position, be they male, female, or other. After a decade (specifically, the first decade of the 2000s), the gender gap has shrunk to the point where The Smurfette Principle no longer applies, but equality has yet to appear as of the early-2020s.
* [[Venus]], the only planet named after a goddess. Asteroids started off better off, with all of the first ten asteroids discovered named after goddesses.
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[[Category:Double Standard]]
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