In One Thousand and One Nights, what is the effect of the narrator of the tales being a woman, and are these stories told from a female perspective?

The tales Scheherazade tells are spoken through a distant
objective narrator who doesn't add comments or illumination (the opposite of a Jane
Austen written narrator). Therefore the gender of the oral narrator isn't heard in the
narrating voice. This is a complex narrator, though, because the frame story tells that
Scheherazade is orally telling the tales, nonetheless we are reading the tales as they
are being told. As a result, the narrator of Scheherazade's tales comes to us as a
written narrator when in fact Scheherazade's tales are oral
ones.

The only time Scheherazade's gender is recognizable
in the text is during elements that compose the frame story, when she is with the King
and her sister and the reader witnesses her while about to begin a tale or having
interrupted a tale. At these times, the narrative element becomes more complex because
there is a distant third person narrator who is narrating the frame and telling about
Scheherazade, as is seen in "The Tale Of The Bull And The
Ass."

Since Scheherazade's narratorial voice during the
telling of her tales (regardless of the depth of nesting of tales as in "The Tale Of The
Ensorceled Prince") is as distant a voice as the frame narrator's, there is no notable
difference between the two and therefore no notable gender effect in the narration of
her tales. In addition, the tales are told with the perspective on women that was extant
during the era of their origination. Therefore scenes are recounted wherein women are
beaten by husbands or kicked aside while unconscious by court officials. Women are also
represented as sorceress and as those who engage in vile acts. Thus it must be concluded
that they are not told from a female perspective, even though Scheherazade is the
interior narrator, bearing in mind that the frame narrator who brings Scheherazade to
life is of unidentified gender.