Reply To: Comparing Sephardic and Ashkenazic Chumras and Kulot

Women aren’t allowed to say brachos on any Mitzvos they are not chayiv in.
According to Rav Ovadiah, zatsal, they aren’t allowed to say certain brachos in davening, and he speaks out very strongly against those that do and writes that we have to be mechanech all the Sefardi girls not to do so (but he adds that it’s okay for Ashkenazi girls to do so).