TL

I think we must accept it as a quirk that Paul did not say ‘the’ or ‘a’ woman and instead just said woman. The thing is that regardless, one can still interpret it as generic if one was determined to, EVEN with the “the” included. The one thing that makes the difference in my mind is the deliberate shift from speaking in plural concerning all women, into speaking about a woman and a man. It is not a woman and all men, but rather a woman and a man. With or without the ‘a’, we can see the shift is deliberate and continues until verse 15.