First, is “broads” something we are okay with here at boingboing? I am surprised.
Second the fact that the first witnesses were “just a bunch of” women is actually supporting evidence. If you were concocting a resurrection account in a patriarchal (and sometimes misogynist) culture that saw women as unequal and ineligible as witnesses† (a bit like you, ClutchLinkey, it would seem), why would you make them so prominent?