This topic has been hashed and rehashed but I would assume that R’ Schachter does indeed paskin like the S”A… he just doesn’t understand the S”A to be saying it’s completely assur as the S”A also says that women receive reward for doing it. I’m sure there are many ways for reconciling how the S”A says women receive schar for doing something that is seemingly assur, but one way of understanding it (and I assume R’ Schachter learns this way) is that the issur is on the teacher if he compels them to learn, but if they do it voluntarily than it is permitted and they receive reward (and presumably, in a situation where they receive reward for learning, it should be just as permissible to teach them. It doesn’t make sense to say that it is permissible for them to learn but they must do it on their own without a teacher).
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