User blog comment:IGotsAName/Empire vs Stormcloaks... Gray & Grey Morality? Really?/@comment-176.248.221.60-20120408002924/@comment-4113369-20120408203054

That's probably just laziness on the part of the developers. You can hardly call it sexist when there's a female legate, because "Legate" is just under "General" in the Legion's chain of command. If the Empire was sexist, I highly doubt they'd give a woman such a high rank.