[Avodah] mechitza [was: heter mechira produce]

[Joseph Kaplan]

RTK notes that "even today not every shul follows the 'custom' of  
having a separate women's section;
> some shtieblach don't need one, because women rarely come."

> I wonder which is the chicken and which is the egg; that is, do  
> some shtieblach have no mechitzah because women rarely come, or do  
> women rarely come to those shteiblach because there is no  
> mechitzah?  Just wondering.

Joseph Kaplan