Women are certainly rewarded for davening in shul. See Sota 22a, where it is related that a certain widow would walk every day all the way to the synagogue of Rabbi Yochanan, although there was a shul in her neighbourhood. When Rabbi Yochanan queried her behaviour, she replied that she gets reward for the steps taken. Rabbi Yochanan accepted this point, and states in B.M. 107a, that the further the shul is from one’s house the more reward. Accordingly Magen Avraham (90,22) states that if there are two synagogues in one’s town, one should attend the further one. This important information we know only from that woman who attended shul every day.
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