Yes and No.
From Alien Module 1;
"The sexes have very different roles in Aslan society. Males (in all but the lowest classes) are concerned mostly with military operations, acquisition of territory, and political affairs. Females, on the other hand, are concerned more with industry, trade and commerce, and with the accumulation of wealth and knowledge. Females always own and control corporations.
Upper-class males have little concept of money, and are literally incapable of functioning in a technological society without aid."
So males concern themselves with land and how to use force and/or power/politics to gain land. Females run the mechanics of Aslan society, either through technology or wealth. In these respects it is black and white to Aslan, to the point where they see other races' genders by their roles in society - even if that is not the actual racial gender. So the example of a male owning hotels would not be possible, one of the wives would so to support the males land holdings. Without going into the history/background of Aslan too deeply the more land the higher the social status. Females assist in this by accruing the wealth/corporations/technology/information to allow the head of the clan to obtain more land and increase his status. However it is also possible for a female to not be married and run wealthy corporations or mercenary outfits with little/no land holdings. Pre-space flight land did relate to food production for the Aslan.
Re: Gender ratio and offspring;
"Because the ratio of females to males in Aslan society is roughly 3: 1, Aslan society tends towards polygamy (which tendency can be traced to Aslan prehistory)"
"In general, wives (like land) tend to be apportioned according to the social level of the male. Lower-class families usually consist of a male with a single wife, while upper-class families may have
several wives married to a single male. It is rare for more than four or five wives to be found in any one family (a good way to establish this is to roll 1D - 1 when constructing a family unit)."
I can't find anything specific about the number of offspring per litter but given the following I doubt that any single pregnancy results in more than one kitten.
"Family Structures: An individual Aslan is usually a member of a family (ekho) of from 2 to 12 persons under a patriarchal leader. The largest family ever recorded is 23 adults and 14 children, but this is extremely unusual."
Otherwise multiple births per pregnancy would mean only 1 or 2 pregnancies per female, possible but I think unlikely. This would also suggest a natural brake to out of control birth rates.
Just my take.
Brett.
On 28/07/2015 4:52 PM, Greg Chalik wrote:
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.
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