ay (and Joseph): I think you missed GAW’s point, because I’m guessing that he agrees with everything you said. I agree with everything you said. He’s just pointing out (and I agree), that if an issue never came up, it cannot be called a Minhag. We can’t call something a Minhag to/not to act in a certain way unless we can assume that a Talmid Chacham, somewhere, approved of it. That’s why it isn’t a breach of Mesorah to use indoor plumbing, or to drive a car. Sure, we never drove cars for 3000 years. But that wasn’t Al Pi Mesorah. It was Al Pi circumstance. So it might be a fair Taana to claim that women not saying Sheva Brachos is just Al Pi circumstance (women couldn’t read for most of our history) and there was minimal interest to until now, so maybe it’s fair to say that the Shaila was never asked and a Minhag was never established. I’m currently leaning no (meaning that it was feasible for a long time so we can say that the proper practice is not to), but I hear GAW’s point and it is far from an attack on our Mesorah.
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