There is a massive misunderstanding when it comes to women stewing Torah. A hundred plus years ago, much of the teaching in yeshivos was done without sefarim. For a women to use a sefer was really uncommon. How many sefarim were available then? But every devout woman was interested in Torah and picked up as much as she could by listening in. Women went to the same Shabbos Hagodol Derasha as the men. But how much time did they have to give to acquiring more Torah?
Today, it is totally different. Women have much more time, and are far more literate. They will have many literary interests. There are numerous works that are crucial for Jews who will develop an organized worldview. So you allow for a woman to have any worldview she wants, except for a Torah one.
And now it reached the point, That when a gadol is speaking by a simcha, the men cannot follow along with his Torah thoughts. Because it does not pertain to the woman at all. And who could blame them? When they wanted to devote themselves to Torah, you barged in yelling “No! No!”