Reply To: Women and Gemara

Shlishi, I think that’s because in the old world, most girls didn’t have an interest in learning Gemara. Nowadays, women have the opportunity to go to college and get a very intense secular education. Many girls feel that they are selling their spiritual side short by going so in depth in the secular world, and not as much in depth in the Torah world. This is very much lishmah, they want they’re Torah education to at least match their secular, and therefore the demand for women learning Gemara is much higher. Granted there are also more women who want to do it for feminist reasons as well, which is a problem, but I don’t really have a solution to that.