Men have more right to prayer in congregation and in seeking knowledge

The questioner : The questioner who asked about women and about their sitting in a specific place designated for them, and that they remove the men from it,

The Shaykh : We say that women have the right to that, to come to the places prepared for them, and men have no right to sit in the places prepared for women. And regarding his statement that men have more right than women to prayer in congregation and to seeking knowledge.
The first is correct: men have more right to prayer in congregation than women, because congregation is obligatory for men, whereas it is not obligatory for women. As for knowledge, women need knowledge just as men need knowledge. For this reason, a woman came to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, “O Messenger of Allah, the men have taken you from us, so appoint a day for us on which you come to us and admonish us and guide us.” So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed a day for them to come to them, and he came and admonished them. A woman needs knowledge just as a man needs knowledge. In fact, some women are more eager for knowledge than men are, and some women also possess knowledge: knowledge of hadith, knowledge of terminology, knowledge of the narrators. And sometimes they engage in discussion of these matters. So how do we forbid the woman from knowledge, when some of them are at this level of imprisonment? Yes.