History Main / GenderIsNoObject

* The universe of ''MassEffect'' seems to be gender blind when it comes to humans, for the most part. Possibly quarians as well, considering the only quarian military groups we ever see are lead by Tali and the Admiralty board splits 60/40. Other alien races don't show their females [[strike:very often]] at all (the asari, being a OneGenderRace, don't count), but Garrus' war stories show that the Turians are integrated too. Restrooms are still segregated, though, as EDI will remind you if you stumble into the wrong room. Maybe a JustifiedTrope with genetic enhancements being standard for soldiers of humanity.
** Salarians do not follow this rule though, since their species breeds too few females to throw them into combat. From a human perspective, Krogan females are indistinguishable from the males (at least, under all the armor they wear), so it is a toss up on whether or not infertile females fight alongside the males.

For a related, video game-specific trope, see PurelyAestheticGender.

*** What the game did have, all through 1st Edition, was an upper limit on female strength - it affected only those females who played fighters, rolled an 18 for strength, followed by 51% or higher on the "exceptional strength" bonus. Anyone of either sex who wasn't a fighter didn't roll the bonus percentage even if they had an 18 strength, nor (obviously) did anyone who didn't have an 18 strength in the first place; and the various belts and gloves that conferred fantastic strength worked just fine regardless of the gender of the wearer. Statistically, only a small fraction of female fighters were affected, and to a much lesser extent than, say, anyone who wanted to play an elven fighter (constitution penalty, ''Raise Dead'' doesn't work on you, you are limited to only 7th level at best). This compares very favourably to the real world, in which the entire female sex effectively receives at least a -1 to strength (there is overlap, obviously, but compare the ''nth'' percentile woman to the corresponding man and the difference is pronounced - and all the more so at the extreme upper end, which the rule above reflected), but did nothing to silence the screams of "sexist!" or proposals of counterbalancing measures which would benefit ''all'' women for the sake of the insult to a few. Eventually TSR caved and this rule went the way of all flesh.

* ''FinalFantasyVIII'': Male and female students and SeeDs at the Gardens train and fight together.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' 's [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] have a completely [[EveryoneisBi gender-equal]] [[LoveDodecahedron romance system]].
-->[[color:#0715cd:EB: i am not a homosexual.]]
-->[[color:#626262:CG: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?]]
-->[[color:#0715cd:EB: it is like, when a boy likes another boy.]]
-->[[color:#0715cd:EB: or i guess hates, in this case.]]
-->[[color:#626262:CG: HUMANS HAVE A WORD FOR THAT?]]
-->[[color:#0715cd:EB: yes.]]
-->[[color:#626262:CG: HOW IS THAT EVEN A THING?]]
-->[[color:#0715cd:EB: shrug. it just is.]]
-->[[color:#626262:CG: HUMAN ROMANCE SURE IS WEIRD.]]

** Canada's military is fully integrated and has been since 2001 when the last holdout (submarine service) had its prohibition against women serving aboard lifted.

This is sometimes the result of having an AuthorOnBoard. Other times, the writer forgot that a particular society probably wouldn't accept female soldiers and then some times it's because the author wants to feature a heroine who doesn't have to deal with StayInTheKitchen.

**** Although given her exact wording, she ''could'' have meant the it was Kirk life as TheCaptain that left no room for him to have a permanent woman in his life.

* ''FinalFantasyVIII'': Male and female students and SeeDs at the [[militaryacademy Gardens]] train and fight together.

* ''DragonAge'' goes to great lengths to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] its use of this trope. It's helpful that the Messiah figure of the majority religion is a woman.

** Salarians do not follow this rule though, since their species breeds too few females to throw them into combat. From a human perspective, Krogan females are indistinguishable from the males (at least, under all the armor they wear), so it is a toss up on whether or not infertile females fight alongside the males.

* GearsOfWar: The first two games and the novelizations subvert this. Only men do the fighting. All fertile women are used for reproductive purposes, while non-fertile women serve in support roles. The third game, however, plays this straight. The women fight alongside the men. This is because humanity is down to its last throes and needs every available body to fight.

* This varies from culture to culture in {{Traveller}}. The ruling class of the Third Imperium is like this however.