There are two different disciplines in the study of Talmud: Critical thinking and halachik decision-making.
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Can you look at women?

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Anger one of the worst character traits we are advised to avoid entirely, it has no place in our lives. Yet in our Gemara we find chazal legislating to protect people from their own impulsiveness in moments of anger. Why would we accommodate people’s weakness of character with legislation?
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Intellectual sophistication can contaminate innocence. There is a small window of opportunity to implant innocence into the intellectual process.
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A degree of financial maturity that comes from work, is needed to value long term investment over short term cash-flow.
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We interpret a person’s intentions from the words he chooses not from what he tells us he meant. (Similar to the way we interpret a work of art or literature.) However, context is a valid way to interpret words. 
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We tend to value only tangible economic inputs such as capital, labor, efficiency and synergy which create economies of scale. However, birckat Hashem (Hashem’s blessing), which although not always tangible or measurable, is a visible input of prosperity.
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Determining intention is an unreliable art. Interpreting words however, is the science of peshat and diyuk (accurate understanding and detailed analysis)
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Opinions, even minority opinions not adopted by halacha, remain powerful inputs to the ongoing evolution of halachik thought.
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In discussing gender differences it is important to understand the male and female not merely as two persona of opposite genders, but as two energies in the world – the masculine and the feminine, the outer and the inner. Gender relations deal with the relationship between these two energies.
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