RabbiofBerlin: You said “My humble opinion is that there is a divide between the Polish/Hungarian/Galician jews, who generally follow the Mogen Avrohom, where ,historically, women did not pray Shemonei Esrei at all, and the Lithuanian jews (possibly also the Russian jews), who have accepted the mishnei berurah- and who seem to have insisted that women should also daven fully.”
Do you think that this may be one of the reasons that many Conservative congregations became egalitarian? There is obviously something more to this move than the feminists wanted an equal opportunity and I am quite sure that the topic was hotly debated for a considerable length time.