It’s taken me almost a month to work up the courage to respond to this question, as I’m sure I’ll get accused of being delusional and willfully ignorant of this or that teaching, but I’ve never felt the need for an explicitly female voice in the suttas. I was raised to believe that my mind is every bit as good as the mind of any given male and I have conducted myself with that belief for all of my 49 years. As such, I choose to ignore any sutta that suggests otherwise, and will happily extrapolate teachings that specify a male audience to include myself and all others.
Where I am inclined to see more female representation is in living examples of good dhamma practice, including, but not limited to, bhikkhunis.
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