She's a very sad individual. I feel sorry for her more than any sort of ire. She cherry-picked right past Cordelia Naismith (later Vorkosigan) and her mother,

She's a very sad individual. I feel sorry for her more than any sort of ire. She cherry-picked right past Cordelia Naismith (later Vorkosigan) and her mother, both from "Beta Colony" where genders swap like day and night ("Shards of Honor," Vorkosigan Saga, Book One). You won't find any simpering females in any of Lois McMaster Bujold's novels unless they are a plot device there to serve as a victim and you won't run into gender discrimination from any primary characters (except for the old people ;-)).