[dwndrgn]

Well, it's an interesting thought, but I don't agree. Sure, most of the young female characters are impulsive and apt to act with their emotions rather than their brains - but, this is something that a great deal of regular real-world girls do. And the fact that most of these women have power at hand emphasises this tendency and I would think enhances it. Power corrupts. If you could, with very little effort, act immediately upon your emotions as a youth this is going to color how you deal with life and how you see life in later years.

Nynaeve's wanting to 'hit them over the head' thoughts, and the female character's inevitable dressing-down of the men - have you ever sat around with a bunch of women and listened as they discuss men? The general thoughts tend to be 'I'd like to knock some sense into that boy'. Now, granted, this is a wide generalization but women didn't get the stereotypical names of fishwife or nag for no reason whatsoever. From my experience, there's a grain of truth to those - and if those women had magical power to back it up? I could see them becoming like these characters.

Well, I just got up after a late night and it's been years since I read the first 6 books so I can't think all that properly on it or give examples but I think that yes, to some extent the women are a little one-dimensional, but hardly as strongly so as you seem to think.