Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

[bi3mw]

Of course - to be clear, my feeling is that the contents of the VM are "gender neutral", so for me the chances that women were involved would equal the ratio of female to male manuscript makers (this isn't 50/50, right?).

Yes, I agree. I would assume a ratio of women to men of 25/75 ( see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). So the proportion of women is not particularly high, but also not so low that it would be negligible.