Reply To: Explaining to girls that only boys light the Chanukah Menorah

the Sulchan Aruch (written about 460 years after Rashi’s death).

שולחן ערוך אורח חיים הלכות חנוכה סימן תרעה סעיף ג

אשה מדלקת נר חנוכה, שאף היא חייבת בה

A women should light Chanunka lecht because the neis Chanukah was for them as well. While some try to assert that a married-woman is yotzeh from her husband lighting the candles and should simply forego working while he does so, ignorance abounds on a number of issues .

So there you have it. Women should light…because they should light. We need no more of a reason than that.