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Rationalfrummie,
When you say “Hellenistic ideals of women and their role greatly influenced this halachic sphere. Just like science, when these ideas are abandoned or rejected, we have to rethink if those still apply today.”
Do you mean that Chazal made takanos to correct problem in society at that time, but those problems no longer exist today?
Or do you mean that Chazal themselves held these hellenistic ideals to be good?
Unlike science “ideals” cannot be empirically disproven. There is no objective way to show (outside of Torah) that modern society’s values are any “better” than those of Greece 2000 years ago, or, Sodom, 3600 years ago.