But in French, Italian and Latin, Wisdom is feminine. This might please some feminists very much. Ever since Plato and Ariistotle, we are so used to categorizing the feminine as someone who is mysterious and even lacking volition and wisdom. But in the first Reading, Wisdom is not so. She is very alert and watchful.
Wisdom is categorized as someone feminine.
Further, even the Gospel, at first sight, seems to treat women in a negative way. But I have often wondered why the parable speaks about wise and foolish virgins, and about lamps and oil. I like to think of all of them in connection with the Easter Mystery and summmarized in the Baptism we all receive. It were women who first discovered that the Lord was risen. Again, both in the Sacred Triduum Liturgy as well as in our Baptismal Liturgy, the Candle and Oil play important roles as symbols.