/lit/ - Literature

Serious question: why has there never been a notable female philosopher?

There are famous female authors.
There are famous female poets.
There are even famous female songwriters.
Where are the notable female philosophers?

I'm in a grad-level Latin course this semester and almost all of my classmates seem unfit for it. there's one girl who is a freshman but has been taking Latin since middle school. we were paired together to go over how we translated a section of our assigned reading for that day, and she was somehow convinced that a simple active indicative verb was passive and had to look it up on wiktionary to realize it wasn't, which is what I told her beforehand. her and the other students stumble through reading dactylic hexameter (if they even try at all), they often get basic syntax wrong in translation, and the professor just goes along with it half the time. all the other language courses I've taken, and the classes I told in high school, give me a pretty bleak view about language learning - at least in America. idk about you Europa, Oriental, or Aussie bros, though. the whole thing seems to be fucked - both students and teaching methods