Why should we write histories, write chronicles, teach anything?  Why should we have the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles or any Letters [epistles]?  

Women have learned over the centuries, that men never felt that the lives of important men shouldn't be written down as part of the history of the times.  So why shouldn't women do the same?  In his introduction to the book PIONEER WOMEN:  VOICES FROM THE KANSAS FRONTIER, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., remarked, "Women have constituted the most spectacular casualty of history."  Indeed they have.  In the past, it is now acknowledged that traditional historiography has been 'partial' in both senses of the word: that is, 'partial' to the perspectives, words, and deeds of the relatively few elite men of power, and 'partial' as in only part of the whole story.
As a result, women and non-elite men were, in effect, consigned to the 'dustbin' of history.
Today, women are recognizing their worth and contributions to historical record.