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I think we are narrowing down number of issues. Let me try to summarize consensus and disagreements. See if you agree:
agreements:
A1) A woman CAN learn whatever she wants and teachers will not send her away (Beruriah, etc)
A2) communally, most agree that women need to learn relevant halakhot at much higher level than in previous generations due to change in lifestyle
disagreements:
D1) Who may/can/should learn.
The question is of a communal policy of mass learning. Some may indeed feel “obligatory” as part of sending to MO school. In fact, when I told one learned friend what high school my daughters will go, exclaimed “And they will not learn Gemorah!?”. Still, I think even an ardent MO person will not press Satmar ladies into that, so it is more of “mass” than “obligatory”
D2) what are “relevant halakhot” – one extreme “candle lighting”, opposite “ahavat Hashem” that is so vague that includes everything
Chafetz Chaim is not at the first extreme with his suggestion of “pirkei avos”
Current BY curriculum is also somewhat beyond that
D3) how deep? one extreme – halakhot l’maase, another – in enough detail to appreciate it in current world including Gemorah.