"Hmmm" said Jessica. "That is ok. Magic isn't needed. at least in it's spell form. However what if a part of the population has some simple powers like the heroes in comic books. Nothing like heat vision or the sort, just say five times stronger and faster then ordinary humans. In that case women of that group would be used as warriors I think being too valueable to waste on domestic chores that servants could perform for them."<br/>"Maybe many of the nobility are in this catagory but many commoners  also have these abilities since it is a recessive gene and the well know proclivity of male nobles to have bastards from common women."