By the way DaasYochid, I’m sure you realize (but in case you didn’t, I’m pointing it out now) that my reference to my other thread was not saying that teaching girls gemara will solve the shidduch crisis. In fact I haven’t even discussed the shidduch crisis ever in the coffee room (as far as I can recall). My point was that there are similar factors in both cases, namely a lack of opportunities for females to achieve fulfillment outside of marriage. As writersoul aptly put it, a woman’s single years are seen as a waiting room. So it doesn’t surprise me that when someone turns the age at which she has an 85% of being stuck in the waiting room forever, she would cry. That is in part because of the way society makes it seem as if it is a waiting room. Would it help if women could learn Gemara? Maybe it would give them some sense of fulfillment, maybe not. Many males in fact deliberately push off marriage solely for the sake of achievement in their learning.
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