I was once dating someone (the YWN velt knows well about that horrific episode in my life, G-d should help us all) whose family friend said something that I found ignominious at the time, but that I now see as seicheldik. She said that an unmarried rav cannot properly offer guidance on these matters. I relayed to her that my personal rav and friend was a bachelor at the time, and she replied that someone unmarried, le ma’aseh, is limited in the eitzos they can offer. B”H, that friend is engaged, and we’ll be celebrating at his chasuna in Baltimore in October.
The advantage of programs like the many teacher’s seminaries, GPATS, Yeshivat Maharat, etc. is that they offer women the opportunity to learn and teach Torah on the highest of levels as women and as autonomous teachers and professionals, not as someone whose identity is not her own, but merely defined relative to her husband’s status.