Where was it said that Cerulean and Purple are male-leaning castes? If anything, cerulean seems to have more females, at least from what we’ve seen.
Actually I think it was Porrim who says this, complaining about the sexism in Beforus’ society.
Aranea had some Cate Exposition in Openbound if I recall?
But anyo+ne who+’s lo+o+ked at o+ur so+ciety mo+re ho+nestly can see that while, yes, it is superficially o+bserved as a matriarchy o+n a fuschia-do+wn basis, o+n a practical level all o+f the enfo+rcement and po+litical po+wer go+verning mo+st classes was delegated to+ the higher CIPs, which were generally male-do+minated castes
Ah there it is! Aranea mentions about Jades being predominantly female, that’s why I confused the claim the male-dominated castes with her own.