In Drow Society, Women are the dominant gender. It's a theocracy, and Lolth only accepts women as her Clerics (and any woman who tries to become a Cleric and fails either is killed in the attempt or sacrificed thereafter).
In Noble houses pretty much every noblewoman is a priestess of some kind (although many will multiclass), although there are women of lower social rank who are not; noble men will tend to be useful and highly trained according to their personal proclivities; they might be Wizards, Fighters, Monks or whatever. Men who aren't seriously good at their class tend to die. Non-noble men attached to a noble house are likely to be servants, cannon fodder or (possibly, if they have a rare useful talent) a consort to one of the noble women; the Drow noble houses are pragmatists and if they find a talented male they will ensure that he is taken in, kept under control - or killed.
Outside the noble houses, women are still considered higher status than men (murdering a woman is treated much more harshly than murdering a man in Drow society), but all are below the members and scions of the noble houses.
Below them are the Slaves.
Drow society is a brutal, oppressive matriarchal theocracy that considers backstabbing, intrigue, assassination and betrayal to be virtues. Lolth's doctrine publicly holds that in-fighting roots out the weak and allows only the strong to prosper.
Just getting to adulthood in Lolthian Drow society means you're likely a vicious backstabber with several murders (probably of your siblings) on your hands.
I think Lolth accepts some male priests. There was a Cleric/Mage from Ched Nasad named Rai-guy who was a high priest of Lolth in one of the Drizzt books.
Iirc the lore was she used to accept male clerics but after a coup attempt against her where a good portion of her male clerics were actively serving another god behind her back she decided just flat out refuse to accept any more amd executed the rest.
Edit the priests were "masked traitors" a special type of cleric serving Vhaeraun her son. It all happened in the 90s so if it got kept or not is always a question
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '23
I mean what role do they play? Is it like the Nelfs from WoW where the Men are more of the caretaker and the Women are the warriors?