I had hoped this article would address something that confuses me about the idea I've heard before, mentioned in the article, that the "Hero's Journey" represents the male gender (and didn't see my question addressed): there are indeed stories with female protagonists in traditional mythology and folklore. Why aren't these considered representative of the female version of the Hero's Journey? Grimm's fairytales, of which I read many as a child/teen (stories predating the feminist movement) include many stories that center a female hero (perhaps because the stories were authored by women--one would expect women to be the primary tellers of stories to children, after all). It could be that the development of *religious* mythology, specifically, (which was more likely to be written down/preserved) was dominated by men and more likely to center male protagonists. So traditional folktales, which are more likely to center women, have been less carefully studied--or even lost to the ages(?). Perhaps we only have the Grimm tales because some men had the quaint idea that perhaps women's wisdom might be worth writing down ...