Robert Jordan is not good at writing women. Just about every female character is written as manipulative, controlling, eye-rolling, and so incredibly patronizing toward men, not to mention bitchy as hell towards every other woman. Don't get me wrong, these qualities certainly suit individual characters and are necessary to the story, but a central theme seems to be women disliking/nagging/controlling men or hating/sniping/struggling for power with each other. More often than not, I find myself wanting to slap just about every female character with dialogue.

 

Darkfriend scum

 

From what I've read, it was a conscious choice by Jordan to portray a world where the sexism of the Medieval period was flipped on its head. All of the things that WoT women criticise men for (being emotional, being soft, being ill suited to ruling) are all things that were used to denigrate women in real life (and still are to an extent) and keep them from power. The rest of the Wetlander culture is derived from this basic principle of men being untrustworthy.