Is there any proof that the narrator of "A Rose for Emily" is female?

An interesting question. My first thought was no, that the narrator was male, because of the authority with which he/she speaks and the period in which this was set, but also because the narrator distances him/her self from women, saying, for example, "The two female cousins came at once." It is hard to imagine a woman referrring to other women as "female." However, upon reflection, I'd say the narrator distances him/herself from men as well, writing, for example, "Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it."

In this period, men would have been the ones opening the door, so this seems to distance the narrator from men as well. I'd say this is an intentionally sexless narrator, like a disembodied spirit, but that it sounds a bit more male.