"- they don't take girls or something?"

"Well, I made them in this case, but generally no."

"See, that's another reason I don't really want to live here indefinitely, that's just going to keep bugging me."

"It's easier to get the rules bent if you have magic, like you do."

"That's why I don't need to leave right now. It does not mean it will not keep bugging me."

"Why wouldn't a school teach girls?"

"Most of the schools want the people they train to go on and do high quality work and generate good publicity for the school and their teachers, and women don't work in trades like architecture."

" - but why not?"

"Well, projects take years to see through and you can't do that if you're probably going to get pregnant and have a baby several times in that interval."

"Well probably if someone was working on an important project they wouldn't get pregnant right then."

- he looks at Bella for help.

"Humans do not live long enough to put off having children till all their projects are done if they want to have children ever. - also in this country women seem to need to either have magic or be attached to their dads or their husbands and the husbands seem very enthusiastic about having plenty of children for reasons I'm not fully clear on so any girl who doesn't get along with her dad is under some pressure to arrange to have kids about it. Also I'm not actually positive this plane has invented the ring of protection, maybe we should rederive those before we leave..."

"It's the other way around, I think, or maybe they feed into each other, women need to have magic or family because they can't really get hired for much, and they can't really get hired for much because no one wants to hire someone who's going to be gone in six months. Ring of protection?"

"Magic contraception. It's cheap enough that college campuses give them out free where I'm from."

"We definitely do not have that and it would change a lot of things."

"Okay. I will rederive it. I think it uses cold magic for some reason."

"The church'll be delighted."

"The church will?"

"Yes? They try to tell people to have smaller families but people find it hard."

"I didn't catch that tenet in the classes I attended."

"The classes for married people are separate. You're not supposed to talk to unmarried women about sex, you'll give them ideas."

"I see."

" - but not unmarried men?"

"I mean, you'll give them ideas too, but this is less disastrous since bad decisions won't get them pregnant."

" - I don't know very much about humans but I would think it'd take two people to get accidentally pregnant!"