Not according to God speaking through Paul
We read,
“ 1 Timothy 2 - 11. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Let women LEARN in silence.
Of course; if you don't keep silent you will not hear, understand or learn what is being said. Everyone should learn in silence.
In those days, women were not allowed to learn, yet Paul is saying that they should be allowed to.
12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
We've already seen that women taught.
If Paul wanted to be quite clear that women could not teach anything, at all, why didn't he say that the Spirit would never give the gift of teaching to a woman, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Romans 12:7?
What does it mean to usurp - snatch by force - authority?
God gives authority. After the resurrection Jesus said, ALL authority has been given to me, therefore, make disciples ...... teaching them everything I have taught you, Matthew 28:19-20. Maybe the Great Commission doesn't apply to women?
As God gives authority, and some churches recognises the authority that he gives to some women, and freely allow them to fulfill their God-given calling, how can a woman be said to have snatched authority, violently, by force?
14. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Yes, she was deceived.
She hadn't heard God's word for herself, as Adam had. Presumably she only knew because Adam told her, and when she repeated it to the serpent, she got it slightly wrong, Genesis 3:3, cf Genesis 2:16.
This suggests that she got it wrong because she hadn't heard, or understood, correctly - maybe she was even talking at the time.
So she could be deceived, because she didn't KNOW, or wasn't certain, what God had said. This ties in with what Paul said in verse 11, LET women learn. Why? So that they won't be deceived.
(As an aside, Adam wasn't deceived; he knew full well what God had said and deliberately disobeyed. Yet no one teaches that men cannot be church leaders because of Adam's deliberate disobedience.)
15. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
Obviously Paul is not saying that women are saved through childbirth; we're saved by Jesus, no one else.
So what does this mean?
Paul had already taught elsewhere that women could pray and prophesy in church; prophesy is not a silent activity. So why, in one of the last letters that he wrote, is he suddenly saying that women should be silent?
As for "usurping authority"; as a Jew, he knew that God had raised up Deborah to be head of the whole nation.