As was pointed out earlier, in quoting the satmar rov in contrast to the “pashtus” of the chofetz chaim, jachter is making a ghastly straw man argument and ignoring the open rambam which makes the distinction between torah shebichsav and Torah she baal peh. He is making it out to be that the chofetz chaim allowed basically everything but didn’t specify gemara, and comes the extremist and says “oh but he didn’t say gemara! So gemara must be different”, without framing this distinction as a crystal clear rambam.
His quotes about individual women learning have nothing to do with the obligatory gemara studies in MO schools…he admits this himself by his quote from the mayim ganim.
The comparison to secular studies stems from haskalah that makes an equivalence or at least a comparison between the intellect employed in true talmud torah to the methods used in science and math. This can be no further from the truth, but the purim torah made by self styled female “rabbits” proves this point quite easily… They have no capacity to “horev” over a rishon and come up with deep lomdus….they aren’t trained to do more than read the words and compare texts.