You're equating women being treated/represented equally to decoration?

Keep the Human look and change the Race name to "Altarian".   Nice little tie in to that other Stardock series.

Fallen (Dragonmen) and Man are both Hominids, and are both Anthropomorphic. (or rather, they both deserve the root word Anthro).

know what I mean Man?

All free and intellectual societies have far less young people. Its immigration from less liberal societies that hide this fact.

Aka USA and Japan.  USA doesn't have to worry because of its vast immigration. Japan, however, is going to have a lot of Financial problems with a large proportion of old people, unless they start getting immigrants any time soon.

The more both genders start to decide not to have kids in order to further their careers (or by other means decide not to have kids) the less the population growth ... and I don't just mean choosing not to physically have kids, but choosing not to RAISE any kids at all.

For full ability for both genders (and others) to not worry about raising kids you would need to have special "nursery" families that raise everyone's kids.

Depending on how the system evolves, either people will feel less worried about having kids (thus population normalization) OR many of the kids being raised at nurseries will be either from relatively few volunteer mothers and/or grown without a womb.

Several ways they could do this. Either they could replace Abortions with "womb gathering" for the fetus to be collected and raised in an artificial womb ... or given to the volunteer mothers.

Womb gathering would probably be the first step as it allows for genetic diversity (while having a select few mothers homogenizing the bloodline could prove detrimental).

However, a (theoretically) possible alternative would be to simply grow new people from tissue samples collected from STATISTICALLY random applicants.

Alternatively applicants could be selected for a wide array of qualities( X smart people from each race, X strong people from each race, etc)

However, a FURTHER alternative would be to slowly REWORK the economy to not require a continually increasing population. Populations would decline, and the richest might live for much, much longer due to whatever methods we have at the time.

So really, I guess it doesn't matter. Either we will learn how to get along with less people, or we will artificially create more people to be our laborers and soldiers.

// Personally I would prefer that we simply learn how to get along with fewer people ... and this would probably require a lot of technology to keep the elderly working in the economy for longer (in addition to downsizing the economy) which will in the long run mean much longer lives, and less proportional retirement.

As a side note, this would never happen unless every society and every person became quite utterly equal. AKA it's never going to happen. Interesting to ponder on though imho.

All told, more than 1.3 million men and women have been surveyed over the last 40 years, both here in the U.S. and in developed countries around the world. Wherever researchers have been able to collect reliable data on happiness, the finding is always the same: greater educational, political, and employment opportunities have corresponded to decreases in life happiness for women, as compared to men.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-buckingham/whats-happening-to-womens_b_289511.html

It's not correct to assume that encouraging women to be quarterbacks and soldiers will make them happier.  There are biological reasons why societies have traditionally been structured with binary gender roles the way they are.  Whether you're planning a future utopia or a fantasy setting, which should retain some degree of verisimilitude, differences between genders are an important consideration and should be recognized.

Women fromadvanced countries are too busy with their "rights" to care about the species right to survive. The fact that "advanced" societies don't make it easy for women to be mothers and still be able to be successful in the working enviroment*, doesn't help.

* some actually do, being great examples for not just women. A pity that "advanced" societies seem to generate a huge number of dumbs and lazies (of both genders/sex). I really need to watch Idiocracy.

Ok now you're just trying to piss me off.

Actually ....

Race of Humans

or

Human Races

sounds pretty good

"we are here to exterminate the human race"- Pissed off Fallen guy

The rate of evolution is increasing, not decreasing. Medicine, trams, stress(glands), welfare, all of it just increases the biodiversity and rate of mutation.

The problem with idiocy is the mentality of the people and not the world itself. All the problems not involving your work or house is for someone else to fix. When the neighbourhood reports more crime you blame the police for being bad at policing, not the neighbours who forgot to lock the door.  Responsibility is wildly misunderstood in todays society and democracy doesn't work like it should without responsibilty. Instead we get these celebrity scandals and pr events yet no open public and serious debate about how to finally solve the middle east crisis or other actual world problems.

And to the subject itself, what in the world is wrong with Races of Man? The game and the lore clearly don't discriminate women in and if you have a problem with the english language switch the game language, not that all of those would help.

The race of "Men" also seems to imply that the other races don't have men.

And their tech tree will allow them to build the Hut of Snoo-Snoo!

Or instead there could be more of a focus on ranged weaponry, diplomacy, architecture, and espionage.