For centuries, Jewish women and girls were home-schooled in the practical Halacha and minhagim necessary to run a Jewish home, but the massive secularization of the modern era threw the Jewish world into crisis, and formal Torah education for girls became an urgent need. From this emerged Sarah Schenirer, founder of the Bais Yaakov movement. Citing a wide variety of Gedolim, Rabbi Wein examines women's education from a Halachic and historical perspective, and raises the current controversial question of women's study of Talmud today.