“LeftySeferStam, based on his post above, seems to think it depends on the gender of the author.”
I didn’t hear that. He didn’t say it depends on the gender of the author, he said that women don’t write sefarim. And then you brought examples of books written by women that you said are referred to as sefarim and I jumped in to say I have never heard them referenced that way.
Point being, it isn’t about ability of women, it is about appropriateness and tafkid. Feel free to disagree but this is how *I* was taught and *I* believe it to be so. The idea that a woman would write a sefer and use a man’s name is very disturbing to me. To me. That is MY feeling and opinion. It does not feel honest TO ME and I see it as a lacking in she’asani kirtzono. That was not a psak I received, it is how I was taught AND how I feel as well.