Reply To: R' Chaim Kanievski Women Wearing Tefillin

“If a truly Tzanua woman who is Yarei Hashem wants to put on Teffilin in the privacy of her own home and without publicizing it, she has enough support for that before this R’ Chaim.”

Before R’ Chaim, there was no way (that I know of) to get around the fact that there is an opinion that there is a problem of guf naki. So in order to wear Tefillin, a woman would either have to completely disregard this shita, or say that it’s an insult to modern women etc. Now they can say that they learn the sugya in a way in which this is not a problem.