Letters of strangers

Someone told: "The genius died for mankind if he was born the woman". It is told, of course, for fun, but, maybe, the grain of truth in it is. Really, why so knows the world of names, for example, female composers a little? Certainly, centuries-old position of the woman deprived of civil rights when exclusively family circle was considered as her mission is guilty in it. There is also one more guess: the musical composition in many respects is similar to mathematics, and women with a mathematical warehouse mind, as we know, much less, than with humanitarian bents. But, anyway, many decades existence of women in...