Midrash for Shevuot 59:11

ת"ר ועמדו שני האנשים מצוה לבעלי דינין שיעמדו אמר ר' יהודה שמעתי שאם רצו להושיב את שניהם מושיבין איזהו אסור שלא יהא אחד עומד ואחד יושב אחד מדבר כל צרכו ואחד אומר לו קצר דבריך

You may retort: Do, then, men come to court, and do not women ever come to court?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely, women are also litigants sometimes; hence, the two men refers to witnesses, who must be men.');">¹⁹</span> But if you wish to say [something to refute this deduction, I give you another]: Here it is said, 'two', and there it i said, 'two'; just as there it refers to witnesses, so here it refers to witnesses. What is meant by: If you wish say [something to refute this]? - You might say, it is not usual for a woman,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To go to court as a litigant: therefore the verse talks of the two men, but in reality it includes women and refers to litigants.');">²⁰</span>

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