For me its the devs themselves that perpetuate the stereotype in this game, of pants for males, skirts for females and i believe its down to playing it 'safe' due to how many countries they sell to. It is boring but it is 'safe'.

It also doesn't help the devs have a preferred gender they like to design around when they come up with concepts, if for tanks it is usually males before females, healers its usually females before males, dps is dependent on the job which order they go in, and for general they usually go females before males due to there being more female characters than male characters. Its stereotypes that are affecting other stereotypes its ingrained in society and it will be nigh impossible to change it certainly not in this game's lifespan.

What doesn't help is that genderlocked gear was imbalanced for awhile towards females, the bunny suits and the thavnarian bustier were female exclusive (bustier still is) yet no male equivalent exclusive was given for any of them (the thavnarian bolreo was able to be worn by everyone), this was where i noticed the complaints about glamour getting louder they were always there but this point is when i really started to notice it. Now fortunately they seem to make a male exclusive with a female exclusive most of the time but sometimes the genderlocked gear is just weird to do (flower crown etc).

Edit : Wow i ranted XD