Gender and Society

In general, there is no discrimination against either gender in Perrenland. Individuals tend to be taken for themselves, regardless of sex. Women enjoy equal rights, opportunities, and obligations as their male counterparts. Men and women are both expected to complete three years of compulsory military service; everyone has the same rights when it comes to buying, selling, and inheriting property; nearly all occupations offer equal opportunities to both sexes.

There are some variations in the frequency with which people of a particular gender take up a particular profession, mostly caused by physical differences between the genders. For example, a job that involves strenuous physical labour is more likely to be held by a man because men tend to have greater physical strength than women. Conversely, women are more likely to stay at home and look after the children, particularly when the children are young, but this is more because it tends to be more practical than because it's seen as "the only thing women are good for". That said, women often postpone or choose never to have children, preferring to focus instead on their profession - many women are, for instance, career soldiers in the Auszug or the Pax Mercuri.

The only role in Perrenese society that is exclusively filled by one gender is that of the skamteguler (shame crier), who are by tradition always female. That said, there is no law that says a man can't be a skamteguler, and legends say that there were male shame criers long ago.