You make a good point about the existence of social hierarchy and its' relevance to this topic. When we are talking about hierarchy, we are talking about power, and, when we talk about God, we are talking about power. It would be an immense study to completely understand in what way the gender of God relates to social conditions but my inclination is to affirm that such a relationship exists.

Let's recap:

Thunderbow said:

When it come to the universe, there is no gender.

Jo Thorne said:

I do like it, though, when I hear a sermon that discusses the fact that God has both "male" and "female" attributes

and:

When I think about the nature of God, I don't think of "Him" as a gendered being.

JD said:

How can you put a gender on pure truth and love?

LauraBeth said:

I believe that the creator is genderless

and:

unless you might say that there was something psychologically appealing/believable for ancient people to see God as a male, a great father.

doyoutrustmesaid:

God is referred to by multiple names. Some of them are masculine, some of them are feminine.

Gus1234U (quite cleverly) said:

i will say YES, i object to the androgenic portrayal, or conversely, the suppression of the gynodynamic deities.

nicoleflynn said:

God is a spirit.

(Nice nicole )

knit roses said:

Women were worshipped and linages was matriarch based. The barbarians conquered these peaceful cultures

All of these comments seem to uphold the idea that God is not male and only male. There are only a few comments to the contrary.

JD said:

For me, God is the perfect father. (Which, interestingly, seems to conflict with the earlier statement that God is pure truth and love and pure truth and love can have no gender).

AuroraBorealis75, asked (unanswered):

So who is God for someone who needs a perfect mother?

To both of these comments I ask: In keeping with good parenting as much as positive therapeutic form, wouldn't a perfect parent teach a child to eventually survive on their own, without the need of a parental figure due to knowing of his/her own inevitable demise? In other words, would a perfect, healthy parent, encourage eternal dependence?