While most of Judaism applies equally to men and women, including the central ideas of celebrating Shabbat and keeping kosher, not all commandments apply in the same way. The Torah's system of spiritual achievement and happiness applies differently to the two genders. Therefore Judaism encourages them to express this through regular daily private prayer, although of course they can pray in a synagogue if they prefer. This is part of the masculine spiritual makeup and explains why man's spiritual path is more related to public prayer. This suggests, as it says in the Talmud, that women were created with an extra dose of wisdom and understanding.
Men tend to have more of what is called da'at , an understanding which comes from the outside.
Men tend to have more of what is called da'at , an understanding which comes from the outside, a type of understanding which tends to be more connected to facts and figures. Society loses an enormous asset when only one of these intellectual aspects is valued. Just as two eyes make our view of things more accurate, seeing things from the two different male and female perspectives makes our understanding of life more complete. Note that modern science supports Judaism's age-old contention that men and women's minds work differently. A case in point is research by Ralph Holloway and Christine de Lacoste-Utamsing, Jeanette McGlone, and Doreen Kimura.