More on women learning:
Rav Nosson Kaminetzky (always interesting and informative, whether or not you agree with his views )gave a lecture at the RIETS kollel in Israel, and talked about women learning. He quoted this:
was speaking about the Chafetz-Chaim and explaining how it was that in his Likutei Halakhos on Sotah 21 he says that the rules for what women may learn only applied “bazmanim shelphonainu (in earlier times)”, but now the situation is different and “it is certainly a great mitzvah to teach them etc.” – and he offers a program of what to teach women.
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I will try hunting down the source and reading it myself. The rule for quoted sources is “kabdeihu vechashdeihu”, ie look it up yourself to make sure that it was quoted fully and accurately, not because you don’t trust the guy quoting it as much as there are sometimes multiple interpretations of the same paragraph.