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So he's not allowed to go, he's not there to oversee and make sure things are being done right by those who employ him.
So according to that, Moshe writes, Someone who just inspects to make sure that they supervise the kashrus.
So what happens when I'm supervising kashrus?
Someone pays me money to make sure that they're doing their job properly.
and that they're not stepping out of line, right?
That's what happens.
The company pays the mashkiach to give them a hashkacha, but then the mashkiach is overseeing, oh, wait, what's that?
What's the label on that package?
And he's stopping them, and he's able to control what they're doing, and he has a position of authority over them.
So Ramosha Hall is being a mashkiach, even though sometimes it's a thankless job, and it's a job that people don't feel like is a very prestigious and cushy job, but it's srara, according to Ramosha's definitions.
And therefore, Ramos says a woman should not be mashkiach.
He says the easy way around it is, hire a man as the mashkiach, and then the man can have the woman work for him to oversee that everything is going okay.
But ultimately, the Rav Hamachshir is the one who's really the one in the position of srarah.
That is Ramos' definition of srarah, at least.
Now, do all the Rishonim agree with Rav Moshe?
So the answer is clearly no.
The Tosos Masechas Nidon Dav Nun allows a woman to be a Dayan.
L'cha'orah, that would seem to be a position of serarah regardless of what you hold.
Sefer Achinuch, the mitzvah Taf Tzadi Zayin, says that a woman can't be a king.
And then in the next mitzvah he talks about a ger, and he says that a ger is not allowed to be a king or have any other position of serarah.