“I was NOT talking to you. I was talking to the male chauvinist who thought that girls didn’t have higher order thinking skills.”
If saying that men and women learn differently and they would not good chavrusas with one another is considered a chauvinist, I guess every Rabbi in the gemarah would be a chauvinist as well.
R. Nahman said: Positions of esteem (chashivus) are not appropriate for women. There were two haughty women, and their
names are hateful, one being called a hornet and the other a weasel. Of the hornet it is written,
HENCE DECLARED BEN AZZAI: A MAN IS UNDER THE OBLIGATION TO TEACH
ELIEZER SAYS: WHOEVER TEACHES HIS DAUGHTER TORAH TEACHES HER
OBSCENITY. Can it enter your mind [that by teaching her Torah he actually teaches her] obscenity!