Edit: When I say “Center Right” I also mean relative to Ferengi society.
A small addition to my post, Gender and Sexual Orientation in FERENGI society from a few months back.
I caught this frame in the background of LD S4 E6 Parth’s Ferengi Heart Place, depicting an unclothed Ferengi woman.
This provides an interesting insight into the Ferengi social/political landscape of the Nagus Rom era. It suggests a center right that is fine with women traveling in public to some extent (maybe with limits, like it can only be with husband or father or out of necessity), but not them being clothed. This doesn’t seem to be that common, as most Ferengi women we see in this episode (including on the television in Boimler’s apartment) are clothed, but it seems to be a position that exists.
Honestly, I’d be interested in a novel (perhaps written from the perspective of an autobiography) or something about how Nagus Rom and Leeta survived leading Ferenginar the first few years and adjusted to such a different role from his engineering days. We could learn a lot about the Ferengi political system.
It seems like a large majority of females wear clothes sort of thing. I went through the episode to see if there were any more. I found up to seven or eight more instances, with screenshots below (some of these may be unintentional duplicates from different perspetives.:
Interestingly in the first one, she is with an older man, suggesting that she might be an older woman, although we also see an older Ferengi woman in the background as well who is clothed.
Re-evaluating the original image I posted, I notice that the person the unclothed woman is sitting with is drawn like a lot of other Ferengi women, which suggests she might be meeting up with another woman, possibly a friend or a daughter. Unfortunately, it’s not high-enough quality on my end (I’m limited to 480p by the Paramount jerks) to make out if the unclothed Ferengi is an older or younger women - maybe it’s clearer on someone’s Blu-Ray set.
Overall, wow, this was a weird way to spend an evening. I’m even less proud to say I did this than when I did the Kim counting a few months back.