What gives women merit?

I

’m not much of a feminist, but there was one Shavuos night I stayed awake and learned the whole Torah.
I didn’t open a Gemara, or a Chumash. Not even a Tze’enah U’re’enah. It was after the seudah, my big boys were away in yeshivah, my husband was learning in a local shul, and my little ones tucked in. I need my quiet time, no matter how late it is, and I finally had the house to myself. I sat at my table and read my Mishpacha that Matan Torah night.

At 1:30 a.m. I decided I was tired enough to close the mag and get some sleep. But just as I stood up, Shlomo walked out of my boys’ room.
Did I say my big boys were in yeshivah? Well, except for Shlomo. At 17, Shlomo had left — or been asked to leave — five different yeshivos. He was currently managing a pizza store.

Nashim b’mai zachyin? What gives women merit? Not sending their sons off to manage pizza stores, that’s for sure. But… Hashem, I wanted to send Shlomo to learn Torah! I tried to! I’d davened for it from the moment I found out You’d planted him inside me. But You created him with difficulties in learning. By the time he finally understood his learning, it was too late. The damage had been done.