It seems to me that financial dealings are not gender-specific in Aslan society. These need to be seen in the historical context of the culture. Fighting was done by males, and if Aslans follow feline species populations, females will significantly outnumber males also.
It would be males that take decisions on procurement of all things military, and this requires not a small measure of being able to evaluate investment vs capability formula.
That is, this is not a black & white issue.
I would also suggest that what counts for land for Aslans in terms of value is utility for meat animal herding in the first place. Hotels can be built anywhere. Aslan population pressures is what drove their expansion. An Aslan female can potentially birth 12 kittens per year, and an Aslan male is likely to maintain two-four breeding age females while capable of reproduction. That is a lot of mouths to feed, who it seems are not as omnivorous as Humanity.
GregC
On 28/07/2015 11:18 AM, "Grimmund" <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Income and understanding it is (at least in canon) a female Aslan thing.
Cheerfully granted. However, in addition to the land and hotels,
there is *staff*.
> A dirt-poor rural Aslan noble male leading a tribe that holds thousands of
> acres would have a higher social standing than the male who holds all those
> Hiltons, that his wife manages so successfully.
Dirt poor male fronting 40 farmers and two thousand contiguous acres
of dirt out in the hinterlands, or wealthy male fronting an aggregate
of 2000 staff, plus (...1000 hotels at 20 acres a pop, 2000 acres...).
While managing money may be left to the females, I'm gonna bet that
money still buys status, even if the males won't touch it directly.
YMMV, of course.