And PBA, that’s what it means to not have female rabbis – she can be the smartest person in the world, but because she’s a woman, she is lower on the totem pole than someone who went to Brooklyn College.
I’m not sure I have the same totem pole as you. But yes, I am explicitly willing to accept that my ideology means that men will not be interested in listening to women’s scholarship and that overall it will be less respected.
I think it still more respected than you make out. I think at least the frum women respect Dr./Rebbetzin David’s scholarship. And many men I know also so–that is, the one’s that are aware of it.