Just got to the krogan colony

They mention they're doing things differently in Andromeda, for starters no more having males and females living in separate clans. You should check out the terminals there, it goes into further detail of integrating the two genders and has got some of the funniest e-mails in the game.

I'm more bothered by already noticing like 3 salarian females in non-leading positions in politics (okay the one Pathfinder is something in a way).

This matter is supposed to be outright deeply ingrained in them. Come now. I can take one, maybe two, but when the story is putting them over and over in my face, I have to wonder whether anyone gave a remote damn about worldbuilding - you know, for MEA, the 'big world building' title?

For every population it would be a 50 - 50 split most likely, which is what we've finally seen in Andromeda for all the Milky Way races and The Angara. This is a non-issue, right?

Glad I'm not the only one. Female salarian as a secretary for Tann? Dafuq?

Don't get me wrong - I can make justifications for all three of the female salarians.

Its more a matter of seeing them all in quick sequence without the game story justifying it to me. Or its even a matter of showing so many, so quickly and me getting a sense that its the writers just going "deal with it".

Female salarians are not directly and officially made to be leaders from birth. But they are a tenth of salarian population, sheltered, and focused on complex political and dynastic maneuvering. This tends to result in expectations of some degree of political leadership, as salarian families are highly political by default.

If you're going to show a male salarian as a political leader and three female salarians as not political leaders, that's more than worth just the hint of a note in the codex (I'm talking only early game so far, when this happens). An exception may be made to a Pathfinder as that can be considered a de-facto political leader, in regards to the Initiative framework, for the cause of the fate of the Andromedan salarian people.

I admit there's implications of things throughout my experience. Unlike some people I've seen online recently, I don't consider what I see to be an actual 'lore break'. However, I do consider the implementation to possibly be weak writing that may be for the sake of just including females of each species more.

One good thing to note is that the two female salarians have distinctly high voices which could indeed mean that they're rather young and we can imagine them to be breaking social boundaries (as I have to remind people, CODEX DOES NOT EQUAL TRUTH), whereas the voice of the dalatrass in ME3 can mean she's rather old. I may end up being cool with that. I'm just not okay with such bending of Mass Effect 'realities' as to feel like its pushing in my face that THIS INITIATIVE IS DIFFERENT AND EVERYONE IN IT WANTS TO BE SO DIFFERENT AND IT WORKS SOMEHOW OK? That basic concept, I can love. But it needs to be less in my face, and more just present and explained, and ideally we can make decisions regarding it.

Tann I can understand in his position simply because he's down the list of succession. He was eighth, the other seven are dead. The lore is established and I need nothing more on their part. The secretary could merely be the person who had that position. Or maybe she's only just been awoken.

Salarian females are required to be politicians: It's just that in the Milky Way, all politicians are female (except for Valern). I don't see a problem with salarian women in administrative roles, they're just kept from dangerous jobs due to their scarcity. It could be, as was stated, that Raeka could be an oddball drawn to the Initative like other oddballs. Variants always exist, it's just a bit weird. Maybe if you could ask her about it, it would be cool.

I know of the Patfinder and Taan's aide but who's the third female salarian?