I agree with this. A character should have the choice of gender. Crimes should state he or she accordingly. Titles should be gender specific depending on the characters choice too.

I agree!...

I also agree with the "Gender selection"  I mean no woman wants to have the game automatically assume she is a male player..  Great suggestion

i agree

Equal rights, lol! But seriously though, this should be implemented, not only we male people play MR. Women have played critical roles in the criminal underworld.

P.S. Technically, guy can sometimes be used for both genders.

and if you guys wanna get literal women got the right to vote around 1920/1921

A gender selection option during the creation of each character should facilitate this change quite easily. I'm in agreement with the idea.

Nope, disagree. You can choose to roleplay anyone you want, but the mafia in the 1920s/30s did not allow women in it!

incorrect eric, the women of those days had some of the most influential power for the era and often used their influence to swing their votes how they wanted to get who they wanted into power

Eric is right.

While I`m all for equal rights; the time era when this took place there were no female mobsters. 

I like the idea though, but it isn`t quite right RP wise, I guess.

ScaryGuy, women being allowed to vote didn't have anything to do with the mafia...

tell that to the italian americans where women were seen as more powerful mobsters as men

Virginia Hill, Kit Kelly, Bonnie Parker. The list can go on. Women may not have been at the forefront but they were there.

EZ the difference is the mechanics. Why should a person RPing a woman be called a man by default? Someone said our first GF here was a woman. That was a long time ago. IMO this recognition is overdue.

The term "Godfather" is a rank, not a title. Titles are gender-specific, ranks are not. There's no female versions of "colonel", "general", or "admiral", because these ranks are not gender-specific. The fact that these ranks contain words like "guy", "man", and "father" are merely because they originate from a time dominated by men.

This suggestion is as silly as suggesting female versions of military ranks like "admirette" (admiral) or "cadess" (cadet). 

Enaento - Bonnie Parker was an outlaw, not a mafioso (or even related to the mafia). And while yes, the women you have named were 'associated' with organised crime they were still not mafioso, they were wives or girlfriends of those actually in the mafia. Give me the name of one woman who was ever Made (during to 20s/30s) and I will concede the point, however at this point I still disagree.

actually denam there is women in history (not from this era of course) who held the title of Godmother

best example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco

ScaryGuy she wasn't even in the mafia. She was a colombian drug lord.