PCs are rather irrelevant exceptional speshul snowflakes, who have no bearing on how the broader populations in the game function. Most of the women in roles of power are not there as a result of careers in politics, but due to their birth (the Sultana) or supernatural attributes (Kan-E-Senna.) So it "clearly" shows nothing of the sort. As Graeham said, the choice to reflect equal proportions in e.g. military groups, which is completely counter-factual given basic biology whether SJWs like it or not, is most likely the result of people who are permanently "offended" by any game taking a more realistic approach in that respect. I mean your character can have an appendage not usually found on her gender, but it would still make no difference as to whether such a thing existed in the setting...


This "social construct" POV is meaningless if said tribes were subjected to millennia of evolutionary pressures, and therefore effectively are separate races, as they indeed are. This would also mean interracial mixing could produce hybrids inferior to both parent on physiological and psychological grounds, which on top of that are then rejected by both parents' groups. Given the level of devastation endured by Eorzea, it can readily be assumed most of its groups are at low population levels.