Henchfolk, in 'reality' generally come in two varieties, female, and male.  So, henceforth, (smile) I also ask that 'henchmen' be modified so as to give the player a choice between genders of the henchfolk trained [henchwomen, henchmen]. 

This thread makes me chuckle and reminds me of the time when War of Magic had a faction that was the only one to build female troops as a genuine faction trait. Which one was it? Tarth? I am not sure.

Elemental has come a long way concerning gender equality...

If they don't I'll port over my female henchwomen mod over to LH. I'm just waiting for the balance stuff to settle a little bit before I delve into all that code make it happen. I'd like it if stardock added another race option

<GenericUnitType_Male>

<GenericUnitType_Female>

<GenericUnitType_Other>

Like

<GenericUnitType_Other2>

or something along these lines, so I'd have a clean and finished option to create female henchmen instead of the current system of editing. At the moment it is just not happening the way I'd like to see it happen.

The guts are basically this... the game has a particular model type (say henchmen in this case). Then the game has a large number of art definition files that say what a henchmen model will support or what particular looks it will take. For example, when they made the female breastplate vs. male breastplate, they added things for the female that the male just doesn't have. In turn, I had to go through every piece of armor (which is a lot) and every item (which is not so much) and all the abilities (not so much) and add a new model type for the female henchman. In turn, this is how I produced the female henchmen mod that I currently have available.

So, when LH is released that will be one of the first things I port over, since my snaking mod already works and my bridge mod already works. I'll look at bringing over my swamp tiles over and a few other things and making things compatible. But first I'm looking at getting a complex quest editor up and running. I think I've got the guts working and most of the annoying bugs out. I was able to produce a 6 objective quest in a matter of minutes. It was rather nice. Got a few more things to add in there.

There is nothing that explains this core modding really except what heavenfall has produced. But I just looked and guessed and tried and saw.

Why don't they just add in a random generator? Does a player really need to pick male or female henchmen?

I'd be fine with just a random givings of each...

There is a female model type and a male model type. You can make feminine males or you'd get masculine females. Heavenfall is on the forums here, look under FE Modding. He has a guide and such.