This book barely passes the Bechdel test even with a female main character. The first conversation this famle lead has with another female lead iwnt until 300+ pages into the book, there are a total of 3 conversations in the whole book between 2 women and they all include the baseline of talking about men, but 1 conversation did at some point have a sentence where a man wasn't discussed from both parties, although it was like pulling teeth to get that. You can tell me with all your blow hardness that the world building made it impossible for more than 1 female character to be prominent in the story and I still won't believe you. You could build this same story with far more female characters and lose nothing. It's just white male rationale. 

Despite its failings and sexism, I can still appreciate a good story and good world building. Hopefully Mr. Sanderson uses more than a token female as lead to push his books in the future and just realizes that women are 50% of the population and are not vapid silly things to add as set dressing in the future. Though male mentality and fame probably will make him continue his misuse of females through his books. Guess I can read and find out or just move on to better books with more dynamic characters and variety.