Okay, here we go, but the toddler is down here now so my thoughts might be kind of scattered until he leaves for daycare.
I need to figure out more of the male professions. I do know that they are assigned based on an interview at the end of the first year of Multiversity, except in the case of the very wealthy, where they are influenced by the "pull" the various families have.
This isn't addressed enough, probably, but there's a smallish elite upper class that kind of lives by its own rules. I think most of them tend to be people who have become wealthy through tech, so some of them are probably pretty creepy. A fair number of them seem to be naive (and eccentric) scientist types as well. The only place I have ever written about this in my canon so far is a story that takes place way later in book 2 and is written mostly as a hallucinatory fantasy from another character's POV although I'm convinced there's an element of truth behind it.
But anyway, in the wealthy upper class, the rules kind of don't apply. Some of them are naive, eccentric types who allow or even encourage their kids to go to public school and Multiversity (the rich don't have to go to it since they can choose to work in family businesses) to see how "normal people" live, etc. Women tend to have volunteer jobs, like teaching music and other man-wooing skills to other rich women.
Education is segregated to an extent. Instructors are mostly women and teach girls-only classes about "girl stuff" like how to be good wives. They also teach co-ed classes on "general" subjects like language and stuff. For males-only subjects like math and tech, the Instructors and classes would be all male. And dammit, need to find my charger.
Re: world building
I need to figure out more of the male professions. I do know that they are assigned based on an interview at the end of the first year of Multiversity, except in the case of the very wealthy, where they are influenced by the "pull" the various families have.
This isn't addressed enough, probably, but there's a smallish elite upper class that kind of lives by its own rules. I think most of them tend to be people who have become wealthy through tech, so some of them are probably pretty creepy. A fair number of them seem to be naive (and eccentric) scientist types as well. The only place I have ever written about this in my canon so far is a story that takes place way later in book 2 and is written mostly as a hallucinatory fantasy from another character's POV although I'm convinced there's an element of truth behind it.
But anyway, in the wealthy upper class, the rules kind of don't apply. Some of them are naive, eccentric types who allow or even encourage their kids to go to public school and Multiversity (the rich don't have to go to it since they can choose to work in family businesses) to see how "normal people" live, etc. Women tend to have volunteer jobs, like teaching music and other man-wooing skills to other rich women.
Education is segregated to an extent. Instructors are mostly women and teach girls-only classes about "girl stuff" like how to be good wives. They also teach co-ed classes on "general" subjects like language and stuff. For males-only subjects like math and tech, the Instructors and classes would be all male. And dammit, need to find my charger.