Reply To: Nashim Da'atan Kalos and Women Today

I am not going to comment on the question of whether or not it applies today, but it should be clarified that it is not only about persuasion. It is more general than that. For example, the Beis Yosef in the beginning of Hilchos Shechita cites an opinion that women should not shecht because they are more prone to feeling faint at the sight of all the blood and not shecht properly then men, because nashim da’atam kalos. It is an idea that seems to say that women are generally weaker-hearted than men.