We know the names of Rambam’s father, brother, son, nephew, father-in-law, and brother-in-law (twice over).
We have a letter congratulating Rambam on his marriage.
We do not know the name of Rambam’s wife.
(Or sister. Or mother.)
Not because there was anything wrong with her or because she had no impact on Rambam or their son, or because she played no role in enabling him to engage in so much exemplary study or shoulder so much communal responsibility.
Not because she had had no name.
But because no one cared to remember it.
I believe that casual erasure reflects so much that is wrong with how we relate to great rabbis, Jewish history, and Jewish women, then and today.
A major corrective is needed, and formally opening the national rabbinate to women is just the first step.
PS: You’re kidding yourself if you think this isn’t connected to the statements about women from some of the classical sages that Rambam promoted in his works.