> It makes me wonder how much worse roman civilization must have been for women that they apparently didn't even bother to write down anything about them.

A starting point to learn about specific Roman women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distinguished_Roman_wo...

One thing to note is that freeborn women in Ancient Rome were citizens but could not vote and could not hold public office, severely limiting their public role and hence reference by historians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome