"Oh, I certainly believe a young woman can shoot or strategise as well as a man, and if I didn't my time here would certainly have cured that, but there are many things in my society that a woman is not permitted to do, out of belief that they are... weaker, less capable, and duller of mind."

He frowns a little. "I do not hold with that, let me be clear. I have known some very clever women, and I married one of them, but nevertheless they are barred from a number of places or circles on that basis, sometimes by law and sometimes by convention."