Tractate Berakoth: I. On Reciting the Shma‘: M. III. 3. The Case of Women, Slaves, and Children
Tractate Berakoth, by , by A. Lukyn Williams, [1921]
M.III. 3. Women, slaves, and little children are exempt from the recitation of the Shma‘, and from the Phylacteries, but are under obligation in the case of the Prayer, and the Mezuzah, and the Benediction after meals. 1
23:1 the Benediction after meals. But they are not "invited to say the Benediction." M. VII. 3 (2) (infra, p. 60).