Jutta asked Glynn Stewart:

Why are in Starship's Mage all Captains and powerful figures male and most of the women cute secretarys? Why is there this huge difference between both genders?

Glynn Stewart I have always had the opinion that a reader's perspective on a book is never wrong for them.
That said, this question was so opposed to the usual complaints I get that I had to stop and talk it over with my partner to try and see where you were coming from.

There are a number of women in Starship's Mage of great political or economic power (from the first book alone, Hand Alaura Stealey and Keiko Alabaster, for example) as well as starship captains (of the (I believe) two named Royal Martian Navy captains in the first Starship's Mage, for example, one is male and one is female).

The intent, certainly, is to present a society of full gender equality. We realized in our discussion that part of the problem may be that many of the female political figures, especially, end up being background characters while male figures, such as the Corinthian Guildmster, end up being key to the story.

Your question tells me that I need to do a better job than I have been doing on this point, so thank you for drawing your experience to my attention!

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