On the other hand, aside from a few exceptions, classes are almost entirely segregated by gender. A woman can never be a knight, and a man can never be a cleric, etc. This does have the side effect that you need about equal gender representation to have a well-balanced army, but it does seem to kind of betray the point of equal representation. For whatever reason, Tactics Ogre (which was released earlier) was much better about this with most classes not being gender specific