Why women cannot take the Sanyas?

[Flora]

Many times in my life the idea of dedicating my whole life in the study and teaching of philosophy and religious scriptures has occured to my mind, and during my studies of the same I have never found any prohibition in doing so.

But when looking at the vidyapeetha I realised that only men seem to be allowed, and really i don't understand why it is so.

 

Of course in Ancient times, women were not supposed to take part in vedic studies and little access to knowledge as they were not considered as equal. But today that we recognise that women have same spritual & intellectual capacities, really I cannot understand why it is still so.

 

When reading Bhagavadgita or any of its comments I never feel that God is adressing to men only, he is adressing mindkind as a whole and there is no discrimination because afterall we are all Souls. I feel that if women couldn't be great devotees and dedicate their lifes to God, He would have made clearly this distinction, but i can't see any of such in His words...