In a place where a singular masculine noun comes, it needs an amplificatory expression to include women, as when it is written הגר (that sojourns)¹¹⁴ it needs to include women. And moreover, with the noun כהן (priest)¹¹⁵, it does not include a כהנת (female priest) at all, according to the Sifra. And moreover, in a place where it is written in masculine gender, as when Rabbi Yehuda deduces that the law against sterilization does not apply to a female from where it is written משחתם בהם (because their corruption is in them)¹¹⁶ in masculine.

footnotes: ¹¹⁴ Leviticus 16:29. ¹¹⁵ Leviticus 6:16. ¹¹⁶ Leviticus 22:25.

However, with the name of a type/species, women are also included.