In fact, to be a man may provide personal power, and it certainly has physical, social and monetary rewards, but it does not necessarily involve freedom. Being mounted with expectations of three times a day rote repetition and performance among emotionless peers – and calling that prayer, as if it is actually a spiritual expression – is not all that attractive. It is especially not attractive to women who have experienced something else. Women who have experienced friendship, sharing, deep caring and the love between women look at what goes on between men and think, why would I want to become that? I think that’s the real reason women aren’t all that interested in running to do the man’s thing in synagogue. Being a woman, at the end of the day, is much nicer than being a man." This segment has very strong echoes of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, as well as John Stoltenberg's "Refusing to be a Man". At the same time, Sztokman's calls for feminism as a compassionate stance are influenced by Nel Noddings and Karen Armstrong. This combination of cultural feminism, radical feminism and spiritual feminism within the context of Orthodox Judaism gives Sztokman a unique voice. Moreover, her work combining activities of education, activism and scholarship is also unusual, and is arguably modeled on the life work of Prof. Alice Shalvi who similarly crossed between these three worlds. In September 2014, while on an El Al flight from the U.S. to Israel after just completing a tour to promote her new book, "The War on Women in Israel: How Religious Radicalism is Stifling the Voice of a Nation", Sztokman was involved in an incident that received wide publicity. Several ultra-Orthodox men tried to negotiate with passengers to get them to move so the men would not have to sit next to women. El Al staff did not intervene to make passengers sit in their assigned seats, and the flight was delayed for take-off. Sztokman wrote in Tablet Magazine about how shocking and upsetting it was to be accosted by men who publicly insulted and denigrated her as a woman.