Zephyros and I have have discussed it and since it's primarily Pam's art, the Anrath can be discussed here in RWS.
Thanks for the answer.
I didn't realize there were actual specific guidelines.
There already is gender balance in the RWS court cards. Knights are male of 40 years or older. Queens are female in the same age bracket. Kings are male under 40, and Pages are female under 40. (PKT Part III § 7) Thus there are 8 men and 8 women represented in the courts. In actual use, any court card can be either male or female of any age. (Personally, I think of Pages as tomboys.)
Not wanting to deviate too radically from the historical decks, Waite had the Pages depicted as male (or androgynous), like the Valets in the TdM.
I'm not sure that's from Waite himself. The section before that he says he's offering a process which has been used for years in England/Scotland/Ireland -- then gives the description of the celtic cross where those age/gender divisions are used to choose a significator.
When the pages are discussed in the text they are usually a young man, sometimes a youth or child, a soldier. The closest he came to female was "somewhat effeminate" which is not really the same.
Not that I'm one to restrict a card based on sex, not at all. But he also says:
"...there is no method of interpreting Tarot cards which is not applicable to ordinary playing-cards, but the additional court cards, and above all the Trumps Major, are held to increase the elements and values of the oracles."
So, why not even more court cards?
I really did ask about the deck a bit sarcastically, but I'm thinking, like the Visconti deck it might be on to something after all...