Gender is an undeniable factor in the success/failure of artists. Look at many of the women surrealists who destroyed their own work to prop up the work of husbands/lovers (did you know about that? There is a whole lost history of woman surrealist artists as a result of this)… Nabakov has given credit to his wife for her edits while typing his manuscripts… Brecht is supposed to have used the musical compositions of various girlfriends as his own …women created quilts that predated the op-art movement by hundreds of years… etc, etc…

I can get old school on this topic. Your mom and I would bond over it.