Question

Hello Rabbi,
From reading your words, I understood that you do not completely rule out the possibility that there is an essential difference between the sexes, and therefore you place the burden of proof against it on the women who seek to integrate into the traditional world of Torah study.
Now, if it ultimately turns out in a sufficiently convincing way that Talmudic scholarship really does reflect a more male mode of thinking, would that not imply female spiritual inferiority as well (in the statistical sense, of course) within a rationalist outlook such as yours? In the kabbalistic and Hasidic outlook, for example, there are indeed essential differences, but the language of emotion attributed to femininity is genuinely valued alongside the intellectual one, and perhaps even preferred to it.
Thank you, and Sabbath peace.