Which was one of the irritating things I found with Egwene's entire post-LoC arc. If a grown-ass woman is willing to take the risks inherent in forcing, she should damn well be allowed, especially with Tarmon Gaidon looming. That last factor was never more than an occasional talking point for Egwene throughout her Amyrlin arc, with nearly every decision she made being automatically a bad idea or wrong choice in the context of the imminent (or contemporaneous) ultimate apocalyptic battle between Evil and humanity.

In fact, once the news of Rand drawing Callandor reached the Tower, the training program should have been ramped up to force EVERYone. They say the more you bleed in training, the less you bleed in battle. Maybe if they'd have been more willing to burn out or kill a handful of otherwise insignificant channelers in the year or so leading up to the Last Battle, more would have survived in the end.