series of scifi books beginning with the pride of chanur written by c.j.cherryh who is a fucking awesome woman

and it probs doesn't count bc it is only stanned by me lol

it's kinda complicated, lots of space politics and advertures and fighting and running, but the reason i keep thinking anon might like it is one of the alien races is cat ppl with the sort of society u might get from lion-based humanoid cat ppl
so males just laze around and don't do much and bc of this males are thought of as useless and decorative and stupid and expected to fight and kill each other for territory etc while the females deal with important stuff liek trade and going into space and actually dealing with shit

pyanfar chaunr is the main character and she's totally badass