User blog comment:The Brave Wolf/Assassin's Creed: Origins - New Rumor May 9th 2017/@comment-5088097-20170509174549/@comment-18014300-20170513180141

SupremeAssassin, It is factually incorrect to say that women in ancient Egypt were little more than wives. Ancient Egypt had one of the most gender egalitarian societies for its time and for the entire course of human history until modern times. Women were seen as entirely autonomous individuals who could own property, earn their own wealth, receive inheritance, and make contracts. Women and men had an entirely equal process for marriage and divorce, and women could even sue their husbands or other men and above all, serve as judges and prosecutors. Egyptian government stipulated that everyone regardless of gender or social class were entirely equal before the law, and there are records of even peasants winning lawsuits against nobles. The closest thing to sexism against women in ancient Egyptian society is that men still have precedence over women in the line of succession.

Aside from that, it does not really matter in my mind whether women in the society of the setting are marginalized or not, as these are Assassins we are talking about. Assassin society defied such cultural norms of inequality and were centuries ahead in progressiveness. A women who joins the Assassins would be treated the same as a man and would only have to be relegated to a subordinate position (not in a place like ancient Egypt but say ancient Assyria or Greece) if she had to disguise herself as a commoner in public. Besides, as you said, exceptions do happen, so even if not for the first two points of Egypt treating women equally or Assassins treating women equally, even if not for those two points, a female protagonist could still be an exception, as we see with Quila or with the historical figure of, a female military general of the of China.