Clement of Rome

“ Chapter IV.—Conduct of the Holy Man Where There are Women Only.
But if we chance to come into a place where there are no Christian men, but all the believers are women and maidens, [1] and they press us to pass the night there in that place, we call them all together to some suitable place, [2] and ask them how they do; and according to that which we learn from them, and what we see to be their state of mind, we address them in a suitable manner, as men fearing God. ”

“ We do everything as for their edification. And as to those who are married, we speak to them in the Lord in a manner suited to them. And if, moreover, the day decline and the eventide draw on, we select, in order to pass the night there, a woman who is aged and the most exemplary [5] of them all; and we speak to her to give us a place all to ourselves, where no woman enters, nor maiden. ”