If a woman is skaa - if she's a slave - she works as hard as the men who are skaa. No exceptions.
If a woman is a noble, she's meant to look beautiful. She's married, and her intelligence is only of use in women's ways: at balls, at dinners. Places where nobles conference and scheme. Men are the heads of Houses, and the only ruler was the Lord Ruler, and he wouldn't allow anyone else to take what was his.
If she's an Allomancer, only then she's thought of as equal. Allomancers are rare, and an assassin can't be ignored because she's a woman. And that just means she's used, just like every other Allomancer is used by the people who shouldn't control them.
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If a woman is a noble, she's meant to look beautiful. She's married, and her intelligence is only of use in women's ways: at balls, at dinners. Places where nobles conference and scheme. Men are the heads of Houses, and the only ruler was the Lord Ruler, and he wouldn't allow anyone else to take what was his.
If she's an Allomancer, only then she's thought of as equal. Allomancers are rare, and an assassin can't be ignored because she's a woman. And that just means she's used, just like every other Allomancer is used by the people who shouldn't control them.