pinklight

Yes, an egal scenario is that there was 1 woman that Paul was referring to.  However, Paul did not use the definite article, so we cannot be sure it was ONLY 1.

But it stops at 1 (the least) because there is no way to go further from 1 (the least) and this is reason why we can be sure that we cannot make the prohibiton for the least out to be a universal law for all (women).