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As is any area of halacha, there isn’t as much black and white as people would believe. While learning, you may have a clear decision how to deal with many issues, but when a shailah is presented you need to make complicated decisions – because many factors interact, and because you need to be able to pick up from the shailah whats really involved – and that entails a broad knowledge of halacha. That’s why the concept of a posek for specific areas doesn’t make too much sense by men either – unless it means that he has a fine knowledge of halacha in general, and happens to ‘really’ know certain areas better.
And a great deal of the black and white issues which do exist should be known to a couple, with a minimal investment of studying time, from any of several excellent works available.
And why is there such a great need for the women to discuss halacha with a Rav, and can’t forward the majority of their shailos through their husbands ?