Gadolhadorah-Anyone who is a regular on the live (12:10 AM EDT) zoom broadcast of R’ Stefansky’s MDY knows there are women who participate nightly but keep their Zoom video box shut off to avoid revealing their gender. Some have screen-mames (not turned off) which clearly imply their gender.
You are correct but it’s not always true as there are men that have their cameras on and yet they have a female screen names, most probably their wives.
I was once on the zoom for R’Eli’s shiur a few years ago and a woman had her camera on for a few minutes. She wrote in the chat on zoom that she is one of many women who watch R’Eli’s shiur and when she is in Israel, she tries to go on zoom. Happens to be, R’Eli once read an email from her, not realizing it was from a woman (many people have interesting nicknames so he didn’t realize).
There was also an almana at one point (she has since remarried) who was part of the shiur and she wrote to R’Eli that she wanted Torah in the house and that’s how she got involved in the shiur.
