Karen Traviss has a history of injecting her own personal feminist views into whatever book she writes regardless of whether or not it fits.

Just look at her books in the Halo universe. All the important characters making decisions are women, and all the male characters are constantly shitting themselves instead of acting like soldiers. And the women in charge are constantly lecturing the men on things. It isn't even limited to human characters she writes either. The elites and the jackals have the same thing going on.