The men in Othello are more of a focus than the women. They are all, however, very different. The men in this Shakespearean tragedy are all rather powerful. Both Othello and Iago are rather naive in my opinion. Iago was willing to ruin Othello's life just because he did not get the lieutenant job and Othello was willing to kill his new wife without any true evidence of her doing anything wrong, just another man's word. I would consider the male figures in Othello "typical" males because of the way they handle verbal altercations, especially Cassio with the fight at the end of Act II. The men in Othello are looked at as greater people than the women are.
The two main women in Othello are Desdemona, Othello's wife, and Emilia, Iago's wife. I would consider these two young women foils of each other. Desdemona represents the typical wife doing whatever Othello tells her to do while Emilia questions what Iago does which wasn't typical for women of her time. I also found it interesting how when Othello yelled at Desdemona about the handkerchief, she defends him saying that he's just stressed out because of all the things on his plate kind of like what the First Lady would say about the President if they were in a similar situation. All in all, women in Othello are looked at as possessions and aren't equal to men.