Anyone read the Binah last week? (or maybe it was the Family First..?) Anyway, there was an article in it about this.
One interviewee said something like this: It used to be that women barely knew how to read hebrew. But they knew how to daven. Today, many women and girls can translate nearly every word in the siddur/tehillem (and quote meforshim on each posuk) but they don’t know how to daven.
I believe that the schools are in competition with each other to see who can have the most intensive in-depth textual studies program. And it doesn’t help that to keep up with the seminary programs you have to be at that level of learning.
A school that focuses of halachos pertaining to women and girls, hahskafa, and Chumash, Nach, Tehillem, Pirkei Avos-WITH A FOCUS ON THE HASHKAFA ASPECT OF LEARNING, not just to cover more meforshim, is viewed as second-rate.