For much of our history, it was unseemly to educate women. Someone had to stay home to hold down the fort & raise babies. Biological reality is gonna tell you that if there hadn't been a woman in beginning of the life of any great man, he would not have contributed anything.
Leonardo daVinci's mother, etc...
No, I'm not saying that Mom can take credit for what her child does. Anyone trying to stake some kind of claim for same, just because they share the same gender seems a bit odd to me.
Without loking it up, can you name any of the mothers of the people on my list? By the way, most of the people on my list were compromised in some way. daVinci was probably gay. Beethoven was deaf for part of his composing career, Einstein had to flee anti-semitism etc. They all flourished against the odds and didn't let their societies keep them down.