Let us just state what is obvious, taleworlds is obviously pandering here. Just look at the first game, which made it very clear how difficult it would be to play as a female and had many mentions of how females were treated in society, etc. So you are telling me that a game which takes places 200 or whatever years before the previous game, women have much more power and authority? It is ridiculous and doesn't make any sense. There are more female gangster leaders in this game than anything else, tons of female warlords, etc. The only thing they didn't do thankfully was make female soldiers. That would have been blatant. They were clearly looking for a way to appease a certain group of people and came up with this solution.