Golfish: “We can say the same of all the many, many men in previous generation who did not know how to read or learn. The ameratzim, the poshute yidden who served Hashem with full hearts but very little knowledge. What about them?”
While I appreciate the intention, this comparison doesn’t actually do women justice. There have been many women much greater than this ameratzim you mention.
Any man has Mitva of learning torah and if he is Ameratz either he has far bellow average intelligence, or he has made some bad choices. In any case no matter how much he is justified for being ameratz, he still lacks something that’s very important for every jewish man to have.
Women on the other hand don’t have mitzva of learning torah and so their lack of knowladge says nothing about their Madreiga in avodas hashem.
And sorry for nitpicking.