Palpatine vs. racism (er, speciesism?)

[Stormbringer]

Were there any other women in the trilogy aside of Leia and Mothma? Also, those two ain't even military people.

There were a number of women on Hoth if you watch. Not a hell of a lot and they were mostly non-combatants but they're there.

Also, scarcity of women in the battlefield is quite a common thing in most today's countries. Maybe in the Empire, military is simply not a popular career choice among women (compared to men), like in real world, where military personnel are still dominated by men.

That's probably some of it. But even that doesn't explain why the Empire in the movie is invariably represented by white, male humans. No aliens, no women. Given we've seen a few military woman in the Old Republic navy and Naboo forces I don't think military disinclination could possibly the sole reason.

[Peregrin Toker]

That's probably some of it. But even that doesn't explain why the Empire in the movie is invariably represented by white, male humans. No aliens, no women. Given we've seen a few military woman in the Old Republic navy and Naboo forces I don't think military disinclination could possibly the sole reason.

Maybe Palpatine started scapegoating various alien species after the fall of the Republic, since many Seperatist leaders were nonhuman, such as Poggle the Lesser (Geonosian), Nute Gunray (Neimoidian), San Hill (Muunilinst), Po Nudo (Aqualish), Wat Tambor (Skakoan) and Tikkes (Quarren).

However, I wonder what happened to the Kaminoans - were they purged as well, or were they spared due to their role in helping the creation of the Empire through supplying Palpatine with Clonetroopers?