The Mishne Torah overall reflects Rambam’s relatively objective interpretation of Talmudic law. Where he records his own opinion, he makes it clear; and even the nuances of his application of the accepted rules of interpretation (interwoven with explicit and implicit Geonic guidance) can be discerned in comparison to the original sugiyoth themselves (often hinging on a particular keyword). So MT’s sometimes negative description of women as a class and their roles within the Talmudic society overall reflects the perceptions and prejudices of the classical era, and not necessarily those of Rambam himself. (And certainly, we should learn and practice accordingly – we’re under no obligation to adopt the same perceptions and prejudices.)
But what about the actual women of Rambam’s life? What about his mother, his sister, his first wife, or his second? How did he feel about them, their intellectual abilities, their relationship with Torah? What lessons did he learn from them, if any? How did they figure into his world of Torah?
The mind rebels against the thought of a man as intelligent and wise as Rambam retreating into a dim misogyny that admits of no female philosophers.
But when it comes to these primary figures in his life, we have less than silence, we mostly don’t even have names.